KLARIS LAW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Entertainment and Media Associate
Akshay Nelakurti is an entertainment and media associate at Klaris Law. He advises clients across the entertainment industry on production legal matters, commercial transactions and promotions, copyright and fair use, licensing and content clearance, and first amendment. He represents production companies, game studios (independent and large), news media and publishing companies, television networks, independent filmmakers and authors. He also works on prepublication review of podcasts, documentaries and unscripted shows, news media and book manuscripts.
Prior to joining Klaris, Akshay was the legal fellow at the Copyright Alliance, where he supported the organization's policy initiatives and creator education efforts. Before that, he was a law clerk at Saadeh P.C., a boutique entertainment firm where he worked with independent filmmakers and conducted copyright fair use reviews for films. As a law student, he worked in Georgetown Law's Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic and interned at the Public Defender Service of DC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Akshay has been an avid gamer for most of his life and loves exploring narrative-driven games. Passionate about using his legal skills to help creators bring their visions to life, Akshay had his sights set on the entertainment industry early on. He was actively involved with the Georgetown Entertainment and Media Alliance (GEMALaw) throughout his time in law school, serving as Co-President in his final year. He also wrote his research paper on the protection of fictional film and TV characters through copyright and trademark law.
Akshay spends his down time now playing video games, cooking, exploring the sights around DC, and listening to the Shang-Chi soundtrack on repeat.
Ed Klaris discusses the Infowars bankruptcy and its impact on the ongoing defamation lawsuits against its founder Alex Jones after calling 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting a "hoax."
Alex is an entertainment and media lawyer focusing on transactional matters in the film, television, podcast, digital/social media, theater, and advertising industries. He represents both companies (e.g., production companies, studios, networks/distributors, brands) and individuals (e.g., producers, writers, directors, actors, authors, and talent) in connection with the development, financing, production, and distribution of scripted and unscripted content, day-to-day business and legal affairs, and the acquisition, exploitation, and protection of rights. Alex also has significant experience negotiating and drafting branded content deals and sponsorship agreements, as well as advising clients on clearance (e.g., copyright, defamation, privacy) issues, traditional and emerging distribution methods, and corporate governance matters.
Prior to joining Klaris, Alex was business and legal affairs counsel at Netflix, where he handled a wide variety of development and production matters for the company's original scripted TV projects. He was also an associate at Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks P.C. and in-house counsel at First Look Media/Topic Studios, an Oscar-winning film and television studio and streaming platform.
Alexia's clients range from podcast and audiobook production companies to documentary filmmakers, TV producers and studios. She supports content creators from early deal-making stages through to development and distribution and as clearance counsel.
Passionate about the audio industry, Alexia leads the Podcasts & Audio team at Klaris. She works closely with founders, heads of audio and producers across their slates, both in a business and legal affairs capacity. Her practice includes negotiating and drafting host deals, slate/first-look agreements, distribution and sales arrangements, IP development and adaptions and all forms of licensing and releases. She seeks to help content creators develop their IP responsibly and adapt to evolving technologies and emerging distribution models, always in the context of the unique collegial nature of the audio industry. As a bi-national herself, Alexia also works with non-US production companies on their US-facing deals.
Alexia is a regular speaker on trends and developments in the media & entertainment industries, with appearances in the US and abroad, including South by Southwest (SXSW), ARinAction, Rights Tech Summit, Digital Entertainment World, The Podcast Academy, The Podcast Show (London) and Paris Podcast Festival and guest spots on podcasts such as Podcasting Seriously, Velocity of Content, the Binge Factor and Shameless Acquisition Target.
Before joining Klaris, Alexia worked as a law clerk at BuzzFeed, where she supported the news team. Prior to that, she worked as a paralegal at law firms specializing in media law in both London and Paris. She holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. Alexia is a member of several Media Law Resource Center Committees. Former Co-Chair of the Pre-Publication/Pre-Broadcast Committee, she is now Co-Chair and founder of the newly launched Media Deals Committee, a resource for transactional colleagues from the media bar and entertainment executives.
Brandon is an entertainment attorney focusing on transactional matters in the theater industry. Brandon helps guide producers through the development and financing stages of new productions including negotiating various deals with authors, composers, and other creatives; drafting financing agreements; and ensuring fundraising complies with state and federal securities regulations. Brandon also serves as counsel to a premier theatrical stock and amateur licensing company where he negotiates various agreements on behalf of the company and advises on day-to-day legal matters. Prior to joining Klaris, Brandon was an associate at Nevin Law Group where he served on the production counsel team of numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
During law school, Brandon was the legal intern for six months at Actors' Equity Association, and subsequently remained at Actor's Equity in a staff position before joining the legal department at SAG-AFTRA in the New York office as a summer legal intern. During his last year of law school Brandon worked full time as a paralegal at a boutique entertainment law firm in New York City where he focused on tracking and managing federal securities compliance throughout the fundraising period of several Broadway productions and worked with the attorneys on various agreements for theatrical productions.
Doug Nevin is a partner and the head of theater/ live events at Klaris. Prior to joining Klaris, he was the founder and managing partner of Nevin Law Group, a preeminent theater law practice.
Since founding his prior firm in 2014, Doug has emerged as a leading practitioner and thought leader in theater and live arts, known for his passionate advocacy of his clients and projects and for the creative prowess and deep industry knowledge he brings to his clients' work.
His client list includes many of today's most prominent producers and producing organizations, internationally renowned creative artists, and well as some of the industry's most-valued service providers. Doug serves as production counsel to a wide array of Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, musicals and live experiences. He works closely with clients on the development, financing, production and rollout of live stage production, including the commissioning, development, optioning, and acquisition of rights for the stage. In addition, Doug works in tandem with local counsel to coordinate international productions of his clients' projects. His client list also includes award-winning composers, lyricists, playwrights, performers, authors, directors, choreographers, designers, casting directors, music staff, and some of the world's pre eminent cultural institutions.
Doug is a three-time New York Super Lawyer and an eight-time New York Super Lawyer Rising Star. He has published articles on topics in transactional and entertainment law, frequently lectures on various elements of his practice, and has appeared on news channels such as MSNBC. He is also the General Editor of the Matthew Bender Entertainment Industry Contracts, published by Lexis Nexis.
Asa theatrical producer, Doug is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is a co-founder and co-festival producer of Pride Plays.
Edward Klaris is the managing partner at Klaris Law and CEO of KlarisIP. He founded the firms in 2015 after having been a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine, as well as a 17-year stint in-house at ABC/Disney, The New Yorker, and Conde Nast. Since 2005, Ed has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, teaching media law and intellectual property.
Ed has published many articles and contributed to several books, including three chapters in the American Bar Association's "Intellectual Property and Technology Due Diligence" published in 2018. He speaks at conferences around the world and is an active member of the Media Law Resource Center and the Association of the Bar of the City of NY. He raised his two children in NYC and now also spends part of the year working from Los Angeles. Ed graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal at Cardozo Law School. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and the federal and state courts in New York.
In this ArtTactic podcast, Ed Klaris provides insight into the legal issues involved in artificial intelligence and virtual reality art.
Georgann Callaghan focuses on intellectual property portfolios for fashion, retail and the consumer goods industry and has counseled clients on branding as well as trademark development and protection. She has worked extensively with foreign associates to identify issues and implement anti-counterfeiting protocols. Georgann monitors industry developments and current trends to advise clients on best practices.
Georgann began her legal career working at a boutique medical misconduct law firm. She was instrumental in strategic and organizational planning in building the firm. She created business development and client relationship models and implemented all aspects of law office practices and procedures.
Georgann is the Chairperson of the Judicial Advisory Qualifications Committee for the Village of Scarsdale and volunteers as judge/mediator for the Pace University Law School First Year Moot Court Competitions.
Gili Karev in an associate on the litigation and production legal teams at Klaris Law. She works on a wide range of intellectual property, First Amendment, and production transactions and disputes on behalf of production companies, news organizations, authors and authors' estates, and individual content creators. Her practice focuses on copyright analysis and protection and includes content review, editorial and legal counseling, litigation and litigation avoidance, and negotiating and drafting development, production and distribution agreements in the audio and television industries.
Prior to law school, Gili worked in the art market as the Global Curator of Opera Gallery Group and as a specialized provenance researcher advising private collectors, law firms and art dealers with regards to provenance risks of artworks located or lost in Europe during WWII.
Gili graduated summa cum laude with a double bachelor's degree in English Literature and Chinese from Tel Aviv University; has a law degree from City University of London Law School; and a J.D./LL.M from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, where she was also the recipient of the Michael D. Remer Award for copyright law. She is currently an active member of the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) Copyright and Literary Property Committee and the Copyright Society.
Gili was the 2001 Australian National Gymnastics Champion and served as a commander sergeant in the Israeli Air Force's Flight Academy Combat Training Program. She was raised in Israel, Australia, and Japan, is fluent in Hebrew, and now lives between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.
Hanchang Sohn is an associate working with a broad range of the firm's clients on their entertainment and commercial transactional matters. Hanchang advises media and production companies, publishers, studios and filmmakers, and his practice includes acting as development counsel. In addition, he drafts and negotiates various commercial agreements, and advises on corporate formation/governance and purchase/sale/licensing transactions.
Job Titles:
- Co - Host of Unorthodox, Tablet Magazine 's Flagship Podcast
Joshua Malina joins as co-host of Unorthodox, Tablet Magazine's flagship podcast,
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Co - Chair of the Advertising and Commercial Speech Committee of the Media Law Resource Center
Katherine Surprenant is a strategic, business-savvy attorney, leading the commercial transactional practice at Klaris with expertise in complex commercial agreements, digital marketing, licensing, media content rights, technology transactions, regulatory compliance, and data privacy (CIPP/US-certified).
Katherine has represented media and marketing companies in all aspects of content and brand acquisitions and licensing, custom publishing arrangements, celebrity partnerships, cross-platform advertising and marketing initiatives, and advertising technology relationships. She has extensive experience in brand, content and product licensing, video production and distribution arrangements, talent and influencer agreements, live event production, data analytics agreements, customer relationship management programs and Web site development agreements. She counsels on compliance matters regarding native advertising, social media, mobile marketing and promotions, as well as traditional media law issues, including libel, rights of privacy and publicity, copyright, and trademark.
Prior to joining Klaris, Katherine was General Counsel, National Media & Marketing, for Meredith Corporation, supervising the legal work for numerous magazine titles and digital brands, including Martha Stewart Living, Parents, Rachael Ray Every Day, and Shape, and providing legal support for MXM, a content-led marketing agency. Previously, she was the Deputy General Counsel for Gruner + Jahr Publishing. She started her career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, after clerking for the Hon. R. Lanier Anderson, III, on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Cornell Law School, where she was an editor of the Cornell Law Review, and received a BA from Stanford University, with Honors in Pre-Medical Studies/Humanities.
Katherine is co-chair of the Advertising and Commercial Speech Committee of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC). She also served as co-chair of the MLRC's Internet Law Committee and chair of the New Media Section of the Association of Magazine Media, Legal Affairs Committee, and is a member of the Media Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association. She taught Internet and Publishing Law at the NYU School of Professional Studies and has spoken frequently on digital media, advertising, promotions, and right of publicity issues. She is admitted to practice in New York.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Head of the Litigation Practice
Lance Koonce is a partner and head of the litigation practice at Klaris, and specializes in intellectual property and media particularly in the context of new technologies, including Web3 and AI.
As a litigator, Lance has tried multiple complex federal cases including jury trials, and has worked on a range of high-profile matters involving intellectual property and media issues over the past two decades, including recently The Tolkien Estate v. Polychron (copyright), Resolute Forest Products v. Greenpeace Int'l (First Amendment), iFinex Inc. et al. v. State of New York (press access), Mujae Group v. Spotify (trade secret) and UMG v. OpenDeal (trademark).
As a counselor and transactional lawyer, he provides advice to clients from individual authors and artists to startups to multinational corporations in industries including film, television, book and magazine publishing, music, news, advocacy, consumer products, art, and software. Much of his counseling work over the past five years has been on matters involving blockchain and digital assets, including NFTs.
Lance was formerly a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he headed the firm's blockchain practice. Before that, he had stints on Capitol Hill and in book publishing. He has served as co-chair of the subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Privacy of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Legal Industry Working Group and as co-chair of the Law & Technology section of the New York County Lawyers Association, and is a member of the Media Law Resource Center, the American Bar Association and the Copyright Society. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Ninth and Federal Circuits, as well as a number of federal district courts.
A prolific writer and speaker, Lance's publications include an article in Slate detailing his experience with a viral social media post, Viral Like Me, and his presentations include a session entitled "NFTs' Next Phase: Reshaping IP and the Content Economy" that he moderated for the 2023 Consensus conference. He is the co-author of the "Motion Practice" chapter in Copyright Litigation Strategies, published by the American Bar Association, and of the "Commercial Defamation" chapter in Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, published by Thomson Reuters.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Assistant Secretary of the Entertainment
Louise Carron takes part in Klaris' production legal practice and advises content creators, publishers and non-profits across creative industries on transactional matters, copyright and fair use, first amendment, artificial intelligence, web3, in addition to prepublication review of podcasts, documentaries and unscripted shows, news articles and book manuscripts.
Prior to joining Klaris, Louise spent three years as the Executive Director of the Center for Art Law, where she ran daily operations, taught workshops on legal basics for artists, and mentored interns. Louise regularly hosts guest lectures and workshops for professional organizations, law schools, art schools and non-profits, participates in panels and podcasts and writes on copyright-related issues.
Louise is the Assistant Secretary of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section (New York State Bar Association), the Secretary of the Center for Art Law's board of directors, and a member of the Art Law Committee (New York City Bar Association).
A French native, Louise has a double Bachelor's in French Law and Common Law and a Master's in Comparative Business Law from the Université Paris Nanterre and received an LL.M from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (NY) with a concentration in Fashion, Art, Media and Entertainment Law. Louise is admitted to practice in New York and she lives in Brooklyn with her plants.
Mariella Salazar serves as a law clerk across the litigation, production legal, and commercial transactional teams, providing vital support to Klaris in diverse areas such as intellectual property and First Amendment matters. Her broad practice involves litigation, litigation avoidance, crisis management, contract drafting, and pre-publication review for print, audio, and film.
A recipient of the esteemed Jardine Scholarship during her time at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), Mariella gained valuable experience by interning in various Jardine companies in Hong Kong and London. Notably, she worked in the credit political risk division of Jardine Lloyd Thompson. Before pursuing law, Mariella worked in Sotheby's London, primarily in the Impressionist & Modern Art department.
After earning her law degree and completing the BTC at BPP Law School, Mariella was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2021. She worked with the litigation team of Gunnercooke Llp and clerked in the High Court of Justice of England & Wales (Chancery Division), where she assisted judges with notable cases including the largest civil fraud trial in English history to date.
Mariella furthered her legal education in New York, obtaining an LL.M at Columbia Law School with High Honors. During her time at Columbia, she served as a Research Assistant to Professor Madhav Khosla and Professor Cathy Kaplan.
Beyond her legal pursuits, Mariella is passionate about debate and the First Amendment. She was Head of Press at the Cambridge Union Society, and a member of the first Philippine team to reach the semi-finals of the World Schools Debating Championships (Cape Town 2012). She continues to guest coach for the Philippine debate team. In 2007, Mariella achieved recognition in the South East Asian Fencing Games, proudly representing the Philippines. She takes pride in her multicultural identity, being Filipino, French, and British, and feels joy in calling the cosmopolitan city of New York her home.
Olivia Franklin is an associate in the litigation and commercial transactional teams. She represents a broad range of the firm's clients, including media companies, publishers, and individual content creators on their transactional matters, as well as on commercial, intellectual property and First Amendment dispute resolution. Her practice includes advising clients on the negotiation and drafting of marketing and advertising agreements, ad tech agreements and software licensing, IP licensing, production and distribution agreements, and pre-publication review of digital and print content.
Before joining Klaris, Olivia worked for four years at White & Case LLP in their London and Singapore offices, gaining experience in corporate M&A, capital markets and litigation before joining the international arbitration practice in the construction group, representing both governments and private entities in complex cross-border disputes. Olivia has participated in a range of pro bono matters, including coordinating and drafting a multi-jurisdictional report on art and cultural heritage laws for the Committee for Cultural Policy.
Olivia completed an LL.M at Columbia Law School in 2020, during which she worked at the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and as a teaching assistant on the Executive LL.M. Olivia also earned post graduate legal diplomas with distinction from BPP University (Law) in London, has an MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology with merit from University College London, and a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Anthropology from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Olivia loves all things cultural heritage and archaeology and will gladly wax lyrical about the much overlooked (in her opinion) and marvelous Mesopotamians if anyone dares to ask. She was born a New Yorker, but bred a Londoner and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY.
Peter Mozarsky is a production and content attorney with great legal expertise, practical experience and common-sense judgment across the television and entertainment industry. He joined Klaris Law in February 2024 after over 30 years at HBO, during which he covered virtually every phase of every type of unscripted original programming imaginable, including documentaries, comedy specials, reality programming, concerts, late night/variety/talk shows, podcasts and "adult" programming. Peter also served as the primary attorney for HBO's live boxing franchise for over 25 years and during his first 10 years at HBO, worked on scripted original movies produced by HBO's then-NY-based original movie division. During his last 6 years at HBO, Peter, in his capacity as SVP, Original Programming & Sports, led HBO's highly regarded East Coast unscripted original programming legal group. Peter's range of work experience includes everything from providing production advice concerning hidden cameras and releases for the reality series, "Taxicab Confessions", to addressing potential defamation issues on documentaries such as "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills" and "The Jinx", to providing extensive fair use advice on documentaries such as "Tiger Woods" and shows such as "Real Time With Bill Maher", to drafting, negotiating and concluding complex multi-party rights agreements, live pay-per-view distribution agreements and delayed network exhibition agreements for the Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing events. And everything in between, including ride-alongs, 2257 issues, FOIA requests, reporter's privilege, governmental agency access agreements and negotiating with Congressional staff members.
Above all else, Peter values his hard-earned reputation among creators, agents, attorneys and executives for integrity and fairness, as well as for being a collaborative and creative problem solver who is able to address thorny legal issues in a way that does not undermine (and sometimes even enhances) the artistic voice and vision. He is not afraid to take reasonable risks and he knows that while lawyers have an important role to playin the creative process, they are not the drivers of the creative process.
Peter grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn, virtually next door to the Cyclone roller coaster and Nathan's (his personal record for number of hot dogs consumed in a single seating is 5). He has held a variety of other positions, including vendor at Madison Square Garden and pushcart grill operator in midtown Manhattan. Prior to coming to HBO, Peter worked as a litigation associate at the NY offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He also clerked in Fairbanks, Alaska for Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court (where he survived a brown bear charge; not kidding).And apparently, upon request, he will do a pretty decent Bob Dylan imitation.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- General Counsel to the New England Newspaper
Rob Bertsche joined Klaris Law in late 2021 because today's creative world is moving too fast for any of us to stand still. As an adviser, counselor, and fighter for media entities for several decades, Rob wanted to be sure his clients had access to the very latest expertise as new forms of creative messaging evolve. So he brought his journalistic chops, boundless curiosity, and hard-won legal wisdom to a firm that can help him apply it to emerging media and technologies.
Rob thrives on working with journalists, documentary filmmakers, editors, producers, and all manner of creative types. His idea of success is when he has helped a writer, photographer, or artist fulfill their vision while managing and minimizing their real-world risk-and has done so without leaving any telltale legal footprints. Perhaps that's because he started his working life as a newspaperman, then studied publishing, then helped fact-check and edit a start-up magazine-all before attending law school and cultivating a lifelong love affair with the First Amendment. He remains a news junkie who works best when he's on deadline.
Rob serves as general counsel to the New England Newspaper and Press Association; is on the board of the New England First Amendment Coalition; and sits on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Judiciary-Media Committee. He is also board president of his community's weekly online newspaper, the Needham Observer. He's an Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts has honored him for his pro bono work. For the better part of two decades, he has been named to the Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers lists; Best Lawyers named him Boston's "Lawyer of the Year" for First Amendment Litigation in 2022 and 2024, and Boston magazine has recognized him as a "Top Lawyer." He is also nationally ranked by Chambers & Partners in the category of First Amendment: Litigation.
Job Titles:
- Law Operations and Executive Administrator
Rona Moriah assists all attorneys with administrative and business needs. Some of her responsibilities include answering phone calls, assisting with client outreach and communications, preparing documents for execution, and managing calendars.
Rona holds a B.A.S in English Literature from Boston University and an M.A. in Creative Media Technology from Berklee NYC. She has extensive experience working in theater academia and dramaturgy and is a produced playwright and lyricist.
Rory Stanton manages all finance and operations for Klaris Law including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, analysis and business operations. Rory has had leadership roles in the media industry's top brands, including The New Yorker, The Guardian US, Wired, and GQ. She has extensive experience partnering with business leaders providing clear financial insights integral to intelligent business decisions. She is thrilled to hold an all-encompassing financial role at Klaris Law.
Rory is also a proud founding board member and two-term treasurer of Transport Group (a Drama Desk & Obie-winning non-profit theatre company) located in New York City where she lives.
She holds a BA in Economics and Art History from Canisius College and an MBA from Fordham University.
Sam Borenzweig is an associate whose practice encompasses a wide range of intellectual property transactions, production legal for documentaries, scripted TV, film and theater, and the pre-publication review of print, film, and other content. He represents both media creators and distributors. In addition to advising on licensing and transfers of rights, fair use and other copyright-related matters, Sam regularly counsels clients on privacy law issues, and a wide variety of commercial agreements.
Prior to joining Klaris, Sam was an associate at another New York firm, where he drafted and negotiated complex commercial agreements and assisted early-stage companies with formation issues. Sam studied philosophy at SUNY New Paltz and obtained his law degree from Fordham University School of Law. During his time there, he interned at Christie's and Ziff Davis and was selected to participate in the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic, where he provided pro bono legal services for clients with intellectual property issues. Sam was the recipient of the Archibald M. Murray Award for Public Service.
Born and raised in Manhattan, Sam has the distinct honor of being the only Klaris associate (to date) who was homegrown in New York. He is now a proud Brooklynite. Before attending law school, Sam held various odd jobs, including a long stint in film and TV production (he'll gladly share stories about Liam Neeson's makeup mirror, if you ask him). Sam is admitted to practice in New York.
Susan Jacobson focuses her practice on all areas of trademark, copyright, trade dress and internet law. She has significant experience in advising clients on selection, clearance, registration and enforcement of trademarks in the United States and internationally. She has managed world-wide trademark portfolios of billion-dollar retailers. Susan also has supervised oppositions, cancellation proceedings, litigation in federal courts nationwide and in many foreign jurisdictions.
Susan has worked with companies ranging from start-ups to those in the Fortune 500, spanning retail, hospitality and restaurants, beauty, pharmaceutical, financial services, lifestyle/consumer products and luxury goods.
Susan has created a curriculum that she has presented to designers, graphic artists and executives covering guidelines for trademark and copyright issues.
Susan conducts IP Audits and has extensive experience in handling due diligence for the sale or acquisition of a business.
Susan attended American University where she earned a degree in psychology and received her law degree from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She resides with her husband in New York City where she is a member of her coop board.
Zack Leder is Klaris Law's paralegal, assisting the firm's counsel, associates, and partners with matters ranging from litigation research to trademark work to pre-publication review. He also works as a business analyst with KlarisIP on matters including contract lifecycle management and client technology solutions.
Zack graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2022, with a B.A. in History and a minor in Law & Society. While at Penn, Zack held leadership roles in a variety of clubs and organizations including the Penn Model Congress, the Jewish Heritage Programs, and the Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club.
Zack grew up in Long Island, New York. He has always been a performer and lover of the arts, and even performed at Carnegie Hall with his high school choir and at the Kodak Theater in Rochester as a member of the New York All-State Choir. Zack hopes to eventually earn his J.D. and continue his passion for entertainment and media law. In his free time, Zack likes to play pickle ball, shred at Guitar Hero, and pet all of the dogs that New York City has to offer.