About
Essentially, I'm a business lawyer - I have worked for three companies in-house and I also work for clients as outside counsel, doing practically everything that comes across my desk. Whether it's a lease that needs to be negotiated, a separation and release that needs to be drafted, a trademark that needs to be obtained or a dispute that needs to be resolved, I solve my clients' problems by dealing with them, delegating to outside counsel and managing or co-counseling. Accordingly, my professional experience has included extensive research, analysis, writing, drafting, editing, negotiation, advising, dispute avoidance, strategic planning and implementation. I also enjoy attending conferences, seminars and networking events on behalf of my company and law firm.
Specialties: Legal research and analysis, drafting legal documents, negotiating agreements and business planning, structuring and implementation.
Work history
Merino Yebri, Of Counsel
We are problem solvers with our clients' strategic objectives and future development in mind. We counsel clients on business transactions, mindful of the risks and benefits that impact their future growth, enabling executives to run their business.
We are experienced in a wide array of legal services to entrepreneurs and emerging businesses, such as corporate formation, real estate transactions, intellectual property registration and administration, healthcare transactions and employment matters. We are dedicated to becoming your dependable counsel and business partner.
We are also experienced civil litigators in the fields of general business litigation, entertainment, media and intellectual property (including copyright, trademark, and trade secret law); real estate litigation; labor and employment litigation; unfair competition and antitrust litigation; consumer and tort law; and collection actions.
Finally, we are open to non-traditional billing arrangements, such as flat fees and contingency fee work. We have confidence in our ability to win cases and obtain favorable settlements. Thus, we will consider sharing the risk and upside of litigation with our clients.
L.A. TECH & MEDIA LAW, Of Counsel
L.A. TECH & MEDIA LAW (LATML) is a Technology and Intellectual Property law firm based in Los Angeles, providing sophisticated legal counsel in the areas entertainment law, patent and trademark protection, publishing, licensing, advertising law, and tech startup legal counsel throughout the United States. They brought me on to add healthcare law to their practice and bring my experience with startup law, ecommerce, FDA regulated companies, technology, entertainment and real estate.
The firm routinely handles matters relating to:
Trademark registrations, prosecution and litigation matters
Intellectual property protection and consultation to technology and publishing ventures
Copyright and Patent protection
Company formation and founder agreements
Licensing, merchandising, crowdfunding campaigns
Entertainment law agreements, talent deal negotiations
Business Litigation
Technology Startups Legal & Business Affairs
We represent a full range of business parties in media, entertainment and technology sectors and handle transactions of all sizes with a consistent level of attention to detail, client-service, efficiency, deep understanding of clients’ business affairs.
LawTake, Chief Executive Officer
LawTake provides the best legal information on the web! I am in charge of structuring business operations for legal compliance and maximum revenue streams, strategic planning, business development, drafting and negotiating legal documents and acquiring and maintaining our intellectual property. I also manage vendor procurement operations and human resources, including overseeing contracted attorneys, accountants, creative talent and IT professionals.
Our website includes videos, legal forms and lawyers who practice in areas such as administrative law, admiralty & maritime, adoption, appellate practice, arbitration & mediation, aviation, banking, bankruptcy-creditors, bankruptcy-debtors, business entities, business formation, business litigation, child custody, child support collection, civil litigation, civil rights, class action lawsuits, collection/creditors, computer, condemnation, construction, consumer law, contract, copyright, corporations/partnership, creditors rights, criminal, divorce, drunk driving, education, elder law/nursing home abuse, employment, entertainment, environmental, estate planning, family, finance, firearms law, food & drug, foreclosure, franchise law, general practice, government, health care law, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, international, internet law, labor-employers, labor-workers, land use (planning/zoning), landlord tenant, lemon law, libel/slander/defamation, limited liability companies (llcs), malpractice, military law, native american law, not for profit/nonprofit, nursing home abuse, osha, patent, trademark, pension & profit-sharing, personal injury-defense, personal injury-plaintiffs, phen-fen & redux, privacy law, probate, products liability-plaintiffs, real estate, securities, securities arbitration, sexual harassment, social security, sports law, startup law, tax, toxic torts, trademark, traffic tickets, travel law, trial preparation, virtual practitioners, wills and trusts and workers compensation.
Education and qualifications
Southwestern Law School
Law, Health Law
2005 – 2008
Activities and Societies:
President, Law and Medicine Society and Member of Women's Law Association
Pepperdine University School of Law
Visiting Student
2008
Patent Law
Georgetown University Law Center
2007 – 2007
Visiting Student
Class: Professional Responsibility
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Special Student
2007 – 2007
Classes:
Bioethics Seminar, Health Law and Wills and Trusts
Activities and Societies:
Leadership Positions: Vice President, Health Law and Bioethics Association Sports Chair, Entertainment and Sports Law Society
University of Technology Sydney
International Law
2006 – 2006
Education Abroad through Santa Clara University School of Law
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
2003 – 2005
Activities and Societies:
Alpha Phi, The Academic and Cultural Student Speaker’s Bureau, Professional Development Committee, Phi Alpha Delta
Cambridge University
Political Science Study Abroad Program
2004 – 2004
Publications
Civic, Community & Pro Bono Activities
• AV Preeminent® Rating by Martindale Hubbell®, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards. 2016.
• Legal Advisor to Rotolab, a startup incubator in downtown Los Angeles.
• WeWork Coworking space Business Law 101 Seminar Presenter, various dates and locations in Los Angeles.
• Westside Ambassador, National Association of Women Business Owners – Los Angeles, January 2016 – present.
• Avvo Clients’ Choice Award, Business Law, 2015.
• Doctor-Lawyer Dinner Planning Committee, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, January 2010 – May 2013.
• Member, Citizens for Outdoor Recreation and Exercise, December 2009 – December 2010: Drafted letter and appeared at Manhattan Beach City Council meeting and successfully negotiated a compromise with the City, enabling the Sand Dune Park to reopen.
• Writer, Project Everlasting, drafted relationship information for weekly email to subscribers of Project Everlasting, a nonprofit organization that studies successful marriages lasting over 50 years, 2009.
• American Health Lawyers Association, former member
• American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics, former member
Media & Speaking Engagements
• Guest Speaker, WeWork, Business Law Lunch & Learn, Sep 2016 – Present.
• Panelist, Keeping Up with the (Tech) Joneses, Law Practice Today, Moderated by Nicholas Gaffney, February 12, 2016.
• Interview by Nicole Brandon, The Bridge to the Law – Suzanne Natbony, OmTimes Radio, October 26, 2015.
• Interview by Ed Sohn, “Why Is There No YouTube for Legal?” Above the Law, July 29, 2015.
• Interview by Covey Son, “Website Aims to Court Attorneys,” Los Angeles Business Journal, June 2015.
• Panelist, TechBiz Connection, How to Connect with Millenials and How to Grow Your Business
• Interview by Seth Chavez, The Examiner (LA Law Schools section)
Publications
• Applying A Business Method and Strategy to the Practice of Law, Attorney-at-Law Magazine, March, 2017.
• One Lawyer’s Take: Dealing with Difficult Clients, The Daily Journal, California Lawyer, November, 2016
• Get Clients and Passive Income With Videos, Attorney-at-Law Magazine, May, 2016
• Coauthor of book chapter with Michael Cohen, Esq. and Dr. Ryan Abbott, Esq.: Complementary and alternative medicine in child and adolescent psychiatry: legal considerations. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2013 Jul;22(3):493-507.
• Law Schools and Expanding Your Educational Opportunities through Visiting and Studying Abroad, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Law Student Review, March, 2010
• Improving Healthcare with Complementary and Alternative Medical Coverage Under Improved Health Insurance, Health Law, Loyola Law School, December, 2007.
• United States and Australian Approaches to Health: Drug Companies, Dietary Supplements and Oversight Agencies, Bioethics, Loyola Law School, April, 2007.
• Dietary Supplement Litigation’s Lack of Scientific Evidence, Independent Study, Southwestern Law School, Fall 2007.
