Event Summary

WALA COVID-19 Response Webinar Session

Location: RingCentral Video Webinar

- The Video & Call in link will be sent to ticket purchasers 15mins before session begins (@ 10:45am). WALA is using RingCentral to host this session.

*About this Session:
A Q&A Session for Artists and Creatives facing contract issues related to business affected by the national, state, and local response to the current and on-going coronavirus pandemic.

*Registered Attendees are STRONGLY encouraged to submit questions for answer/discussion consideration by 11:59pm on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

Please send questions to education@waladc.org with "Question for WALA Contracts Q&A" in the subject line.

Presentation and Q & A with:

Karl Means, Attorney, Miles and Stockbridge
Andrea Johnson, Attorney, Miles and Stockbridge

Karl W. Means advises clients on a range of intellectual property-related issues, including working with clients on to protect and license copyrighted works covering a wide variety of subjects, including publishing, music, computer software and web-based content.  Karl also counsels clients on the selection and protection of federally registered trademarks in the U.S., international trademarks, domain names and web-based advertising, and brand development. He also has extensive experience with technology-based transactions involving the commercialization of products and services, brand licensing, technology transfer, software licensing and development agreements.

Before joining Miles & Stockbridge, Karl was a Shareholder in the Intellectual Property practice at the firm of Shulman Rogers.  Karl began his legal career with the U.S. Customs Service in Washington, D.C., where he was Senior Attorney in the Intellectual Property Rights Branch.  Karl holds an M.B.A. from Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma.

Andrea R. Johnson advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, entity formation, and general corporate law matters. Andrea also counsels clients on trademark, copyright, and related intellectual property/Core Asset management matters throughout commercial transactions and entity formation. 

While a student at The George Washington University Law School (GW Law), Andrea was a founding member of the Business and Finance Law Review Journal and served as a certified student attorney with GW Law’s Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic. Prior to this, she was a legal extern at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy and an in-house legal intern at Verizon. In 2016, she was appointed to serve as the American Bar Association’s Law Student Liaison to the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. 

Andrea earned her bachelor’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She was a summer associate at Miles & Stockbridge in 2018.

Event Details

• Date

  April 29, 2020

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• Time

  11:00am - 12:00pm

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• Venue

  Online