District of Columbia Bar
Since 2017
Since 2016
Since 2016
2016 - Current
Rockridge Venture Law
Rockridge Venture Law® was launched in 2017 to become the preeminent intellectual property and technology firm across the Appalachian Innovation Corridor. We now have offices in Chattanooga, Durham, and Nashville, and represent clients and interests globally. Our services include all aspects of intellectual property, litigation, M&A, privacy, technology transactions, and ventures. In 2018 and 2019, we were recognized as B Corp Best for the World for our commitment to triple bottom line business practices. Our pioneering environmental and social impact programs attract top-notch legal talent and assure our clients of missional alignment with their corporate values. Rockridge uniquely addresses two modern profit drivers: innovation (uptake and development), and corporate social responsibility. We're Building Today's Company for Tomorrow's Economy® by leading clients through the dizzying array of information controls, by helping them to develop and monetize proprietary assets, and by enabling their impactful products, programs, and principles.
2014 - 2016
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Led business development and strategic partnership activities within Industrial Partnerships Office for bioscience and biotech programs involving big data, biosecurity, drug discovery, human-on-a-chip, microbiome, microfluidics, neural interface, synthetic biology, and other specialized research and development. Created master agreements and organizational plans for life science consortia. Crafted and optimized commercialization strategies for over 400 technologies including: microelectrode array for neural recording and stimulation; nanolipoproteins for vaccine development and drug delivery; pharmaceuticals, including biologics and small molecules; and diagnostics. Negotiated license agreements, establishing valuation metrics based upon commercialization plans, comparables, market data, and intellectual property attributes. Established, negotiated, and finalized cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), inter-institutional agreements (IIAs), inter-agency agreements (IAAs), and intellectual property management plans.
2011 - 2014
University of California, Berkeley
2009 - 2009
Chambers of Judge Charles R. Breyer
2009 - 2009
U.S. Attorney's Office, Civil Division, San Francisco
2014 - 2015
other | Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
2012 - 2013
other | Energy, Law
Activities: Tutor, Governor Jennifer Granholm, Renewable Energy Law & Policy; Computer Law, Berkeley School of Law; Research Member, Berkeley Rural Energy Group / Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab
2007 - 2010
J.D. (2010)
Honors: Arthur Zief, Jr., Scholar
2010 - 2010
Visiting Student
Honors: Outstanding Scholarship Award, Law and Bioscience (LAB) Project
2005
Honors: Presenter, Tennessee Honors Conference, "Technology and God: Effects of Invention upon Spiritual Communication."
Leadership Tennessee
Super Lawyers
Conscious Company Magazine
Tennessee Bar Association
Patent and Trademark Office
Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law
UC Hastings School of Law
Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
Utilities
Internet Law, Media & Advertising, Telecommunications Law
Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
Licensing Executive Society
