Lisa Pearson

Lisa Pearson, a partner in Kilpatrick Townsend’s New York office, is an experienced, versatile and creative litigator specializing in copyright, trademark, unfair competition, and Internet-related disputes. She has also designed and implemented comprehensive policing, enforcement and anticounterfeiting programs for many well-known rights owners. She has represented clients across a broad spectrum of industries (including fashion and luxury goods, publishing, entertainment, consumer products, advertising, hotel and travel and many others). She was formerly a partner at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.

Ms. Pearson received her undergraduate degree from Yale College (summa cum laude and with distinction in the English major), where she was elected into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Mifflin and Seymour Prizes for academic excellence. At Columbia University School of Law, she ranked as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, received first prize in the law school’s ASCAP Copyright Law Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, and served as an associate editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Following law school, she joined one of New York’s foremost general litigation firms, where she enjoyed an extremely diverse complex litigation practice, handling contract, securities, tort, First Amendment, white collar crime, International Trade Commission and even death penalty cases, in addition to intellectual property.

Features

• Employment Contracts
• Harassment Claims
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA)
• Union Negotiations
• Wage and Hour Disputes
• Whistleblower Protections
• Workplace Discrimination
• Wrongful Termination

• License
  Licensed in New York
  State: New York
  Acquired: 1981
  Active
  
• Honors
  2012 - New York Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers
  1977 - Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa
  1977 - Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, First Prize, ASCAP, Columbia University School of Law
  1977 - Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law
• Work Experience
  1991 - 2006 Counsel; Partner, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
  1980 - 1991 Associate/Senior Attorney, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Associations
  2007 - Present
  International Trademark Association - Panel of Distinguished Neutrals
  2005 - Present
  Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committe on Women in the Profession - Chair, Women in IP Subcommittee; Member, Leadership Subcommittee
• Education
  1980 - Columbia University School of Law - JD - Juris Doctor
  1977 - Yale University - BA - Bachelor of Arts
• Publications
  2008 - Managing Intellectual Property
  HOW FLUID TRADEMARKS CAN ENHANCE YOUR BRAND
  2008 - Copyright World
  FROM FASHION CATWALKS TO THE COURTS:COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR FABRIC DESIGNS
  2007 - Trademark World
  TRADEMARK LAW FOR SPORTS FANS: THE 12TH MAN GOES TO COURT
  2007 - Copyright World
  IN VOGUE: IP PROTECTION FOR FASHION DESIGN
  2004 - John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law
  NAVIGATING THE BRAMBLE BUSH IN IDEA SUBMISSION CASES
• Languages
  English - Native / Fluent

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