• Trademarks/Copyrights/Licensing
• Business Planning
• Shareholder and Investor Relations
• Acquisitions/Divestitures/Mergers
• Advertising and Promotional Law
• Administrative Law (e.g., CPSC, FDA)

• Extensive experience since 1993 in trademarks, copyrights, licensing matters, intellectual property, software agreements, advertising and labeling (consumer products such as dietary supplements), and administrative (e.g., CPSC, FTC, FDA).
• Extensive experience since 1981 representing closely held corporations in business matters, venture-capital funding, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• From 1981 to 1993, in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Co.) and Johnson's Wax (The Drackett Co.) in intellectual-property matters (trademarks, licensing), acquisitions, divestitures, administrative law, and truth in advertising.

AV Rated - Martindale-Hubbell

Named an "Ohio Super Lawyer" in a survey of Ohio lawyers by Law & Politics and Cincinnati magazines (January 2007 and 2008)

Named a “Super Lawyer” in the Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition (Intellectual Property) (2008)

Named a “Leading Lawyer” in Intellectual Property/Entertainment in a survey of lawyers by Cincy Business magazine (December 2006, 2007 and 2008)