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LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Greber & Associates, P.C., Frederick, Maryland May 2006 - Present
- Attorney: Sports Law: Represent individual sports performers and endurance athletes regarding sponsorship, endorsement, and appearance opportunities. Negotiate, draft, and administer sponsorship, endorsement and appearance agreements. Counsel clients with respect to their branding and marketing strategies. Develop clients' brand images for marketing purposes. Corporate Law: Acquisitions and mergers. Counsel clients regarding business entity selection and formation. Form, maintain, and dissolve business entities. Draft, review, analyze employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-discolsure agreements, non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements. Intellectual Property Law: Counsel clients regarding their intellectual property protection strategy. Register federal and state trademarks and counsel clients on maintaining and protecting their common law rights. Counsel clients regarding trade secret protection. Counsel clients regarding cybersquatting issues. Help clients protect their cyber rights.
Villa Julie College, Owings Mills, Maryland January 2007 – Present
- Adjunct Professor of Law: Teach Sports Law at the undergraduate level.
Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Maryland October 2004 – May 2006
- Staff Attorney: Member of the Litigation Group. Conducted research, wrote legal memoranda, and consulted with other Ober, Kaler attorneys regarding various Intellectual Property issues, including the transfer and use of patent rights within government grant guidelines and potential legal liability stemming from a meta search website operator's use of deep linking, framing, and "bots" to retrieve and aggregate information. Additionally, researched and wrote legal memoranda regarding Intellectual Property matters, including mark mutilation, material alterations made to a mark, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board procedure for obtaining and submitting a consent agreement. Drafted Response to United States Patent and Trademark Office Action refusing registration based on a Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion analysis for a Fortune 500 subsidiary. Reviewed and analyzed electronic discovery documents related to a complex construction litigation matter between a contractor and equipment supplier for a power plant located in Puerto Rico, as well as, to a government issued subpoena of a large pharmaceuticals manufacturer. Met regularly with firm principals to discuss findings, report progress, and plan ongoing discovery process.
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Legal Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin January - April 2004- Intern: Drafted, reviewed, and edited contracts, including Sponsorship Agreements, Service Provider Agreements, and Letters of Intent. Reviewed and edited Player Contracts. Wrote legal memoranda. Assisted with revision and drafting of Drug & Alcohol and Nutritional Supplement policies within the organization with respect to both the Major League Baseball Club and its Minor League Baseball affiliates.
Intersport, Inc., Legal Department, Chicago, Illinois January - April 2003
- Intern: Researched and wrote legal memoranda regarding Intellectual Property Law and Contract Law issues as they pertained to Sports Marketing Law. Assisted counsel with drafting and reviewing contracts regarding our clients’ interests and intellectual property rights.
Westmoreland County Public Defender, Greensburg, Pennsylvania May - July 2002
- Intern: Researched legal issues and discussed the results of that research with attorneys in preparation for hearings or trials, often, that day. Wrote legal memoranda, including motions for re-parole and motions to suppress.
EDUCATION
Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Juris Doctor, May 2004
- National Sports Law Institute, Sports Law Certificate, May 2004
Honors and Activities
- Winner, Law Student Division: 2003 James Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay Competition
- Lead Articles Editor: Marquette Sports Law Review, 2003-2004
- CALI Award: Highest Grade in Evidence Class, Fall 2003
- Research Assistant: Professor Eric Goldman (Intellectual Property Law), Summer 2003
Marquette University Graduate School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Master of Business Administration in Sports Business, December 2005
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Science in Marketing, May 2001
- Minor: Information Systems and Statistical Analysis
Honors
- Golden Key and Phi Eta Sigma National Academic Honor Societies
- Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- The Copyrightability of Sports Celebration Moves: Dance Fever or Just Plain Sick?
14 MARQ. SPORTS L. REV. 571 (2004).
- The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy: Will ADR Succeed Where the Courts Have Not; A Proposed Solution to an Imperfect System
2 RUTGERS CONFLICT RESOL. L.J. 1 (2004), at http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~rcrlj/articles.htm.
- Speaker, The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy: Will ADR Succeed Where the Courts Have Not; A Proposed Solution to an Imperfect System, The Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, September 29 – October 2, 2004, Sacramento, California.
- Speaker, Sports Panel, National Sports Law Institute's Annual Sports Law Conference, Milwaukee Wisconsin, October 2006.
- Instructor, Maryland's MICPEL Entertainment & Sports Law Continuing Legal Education Course, Introduction into Sports Law Panel and Representing the Individual Sports Performer, January 23, 2007.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Maryland Court of Appeals, December 2004
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, April 2005
- Wisconsin Supreme Court, May 2004
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, May 2004
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Council Member, Maryland Bar Association, Entertainment & Sports Section
- Member, Frederick County Bar Association
- Member, Wisconsin Bar, Entertainment & Sports Law Section
- Member, Sports Lawyers Association
- Member, National Sports Law Institute
- Graduate, Leadership Frederick County 2007
- Member, Frederick Jaycees
PERSONAL
- Ironman Finisher, Florida Ironman 2007
- Triathlons, Duathlons, Marathons
- Founding President, Frederick Triathlon Club
- Pennsylvania State University Homecoming Court, 2001
- Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association Life Member
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