Shareholder at the firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Areas of Practice
Business Law; Business and Transactions; Business Start-Ups; E-Commerce; Technology Law; Copyrights and Media Licensing; Computer Law
Admitted
1982, Tennessee
Law School
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, J.D., 1982
College
Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1973; M.S., 1978)
Membership
Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations.
Biography
Moot Court Board, 1981-1982. Tennessee Law Review, 1980-1982. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Information Technology Law and Technology Law. Selected as one of the top ten Corporate Attorneys in Nashville/Middle Tennessee by the Nashville Business Journal ("Best of the Bar" 2006). Recipient: Nashville Bar Foundation Contributor of the Year Award, Nashville Bar Journal, 2007-2008. Author: "Georgia Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions," Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace Publishing Company (2008); "Patent License Agreements Line by Line: A Detailed Look at Patent License Agreements and How to Change Them to Meet Your Needs," Aspatore Publishing Company (2008); "I Want My Hannah Montana! The Regulation of Ticket Sales in Tennessee," Nashville Bar Journal (July 2008); "The Top Five Tips Every Technology Executive Needs to Know About Sarbanes-Oxley," ExecBlueprints (January 2008); "When a Million Dollars Just Isn't Enough," Financier Worldwide (December 2007); "Employee Fraud," Nashville Bar Journal (December 2007); Frey on Technology Transactions: Tennessee Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace Publishing, 2007; "Understanding the Goals of the Technology Client," Technology Law Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Strategizing for Cases, Resolving Disputes & Effectively Working with Clients (Inside the Minds), Aspatore Inc., 2007; "Technology Licensing Strategies," Technology Law Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Structuring Agreements, Negotiating Value and Capitalizing on Intellectual Property (Inside the Minds), Aspatore Inc., 2007; "Minimizing Outsourcing Risk," Counsel to Counsel (April 2007); "Collagen Biosynthesis by Cultured Chinese Hamster Lung Cells - Cell-free Synthesis of Pro-collagen Alpha Chains," 17(5) Biochemistry 864-868, 1978; "A Heuristic Set Covering Based System for Air Crew Scheduling," Proceedings of American Institute of Decision Sciences, 1979; "Torts-Wrongful Life-Infant's Right to Sue for Negligent Genetic Counseling" 48 Tennessee Law Review 493, 1981; "New Reproductive Technologies: The Legal Problem and a Solution" 49 Tennessee Law Review 303, 1982; "Legal Database Research: A Cost/Benefit Analysis," 10 Legal Economics 32, 1984; "Sink or Swim," 40 Tennessee Bar Journal No. 7, 14, 2004; "Thinking Like a (Business) Lawyer," 5 Nashville Bar Journal No. 9, 16, 2005; "The Day Tennessee Changed the U.S. Constitution," 6 Nashville Bar Journal No. 1, 12, 2006; "The Third Wave: The Tsunami Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley," Financier Worldwide, May 2006; "Outsourcing In 2007-The Year The Bubble Bursts?," Financier Worldwide (January 2007). Coauthor: Application Service Provider/Software as Service Agreements, Aspatore Inc., 2007; Security Interests in IP," Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer, American Bar Association Business Division (2007-2008); "Open-Source Software and IP," Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer, American Bar Association Business Division (2007-2008); "Don't Call, e-Mail, Fax: The Consumer Advertising Labyrinth," Tennessee Bar Journal, April 2007; "The Man Who Would Be King," Nashville Bar Journal, August 2006; "eBay, eCommerce, eLaws," Tennessee Bar Journal, August 2006. Speaker: "Selecting a Vendor: RFPs and Responses to RFPs," Lorman Education Services Webcast, 2008; "Understanding and Writing Purchasing Agreements," Lorman Education Services Webcast, 2008; "Drafting Clear and Enforceable Contracts," Lorman Education Services Webcast, 2008; "Purchasing Contract Administration," Lorman Education Services Webcast 2008; "Keys to Drafting Strategic Commercial Contracts," National Constitution 12 Center Webcast, 2008; "Drafting Application Service Provider Contracts," National Constitution Center Webcast, 2008; "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials," Chicago Bar Association, 1995; "Digital Content Rights Management," PC Forum, 1995; "Defining Needs in Electronic Commerce," Interactive Multimedia Association Forum on Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management, 1996; "Copyright Concerns in Internet Publishing," Internet World, 1995; "Developing Copyright Management Systems Standards for the National Information Infrastructure," American National Standards Institute, 1994; "Cost Centers and Measures in Networked Information," Coalition for Networked Information, 1995; "Legal Considerations in Electronic Agreements," Society of Scholarly Publishers, 1994; "Overcoming Barriers to Electronic Document Exchange," National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services, 1997; "New Proposals and Perspectives for Electronic Commerce," Library of Congress Forum on Technology- Based Intellectual Property Management, 1997; "Copyright Management," National Online, 1998; "Information Commerce in the Digital Marketplace," Internet Expo, 1996; "Forget About Negotiating with the Vendor (How Do I Deal with Everyone on My Side of the Deal?)," Caucus - The Annual Meeting of Association of Technology Procurement Professionals, 2005. Instructor: Corporations, Southeastern Paralegal Institute, 1984- 1987; Corporations and Legal Research & Writing, Vol State Community College, 1991- 1992; Copyright and Advanced Media Licensing, Franklin Pierce Law School, 1998-1999; Officer and Director: Interactive Multimedia Association, 1994-1997. US Representative to IMPRIMATUR (three year European Union funded project to development international test bed for trading Intellectual Property rights via the Internet), 1994-1997. Chairperson, Third Annual Digital Publishing Symposium, 1996. Chairperson, Procurement Law: Fundamentals of the Corporate Acquisition Process, 2006. Chairperson, Technology Law: The Fundamentals and More, 2006.
Transactions
Counsel to several Fortune 500 companies (both vendors and purchasers) with respect to corporate and information technology procurement transactions; Counsel to independent and documentary film companies; Asset acquisition of genomics division of a publicly traded US company on behalf of Indian conglomerate; Counsel to Fortune 100 company in outsourcing of disaster recovery data and call center; Counsel to one of the first personal computer manufacturers.
Born
Nashville, Tennessee, March 13, 1951
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