By: Emily Gische, Associate, Mountain View
Fenwick is proud to partner with California Lawyers for the Arts (“CLA”) to represent members of the creative arts community throughout the state. Through the Lawyer Referral Service, the firm represents clients on a pro bono basis with licensing, copyright, trademark, and a variety of other legal issues.
Through a CLA referral, I have been fortunate enough to work with a client who owns his own music accessories company. In addition to the valuable and transferable skills I’ve gained through the representation, I’ve relished the opportunity to work directly with the client to learn more about his business and help protect and enforce his intellectual property rights.
CLA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower the creative community by providing education, representation and dispute resolution. Beyond the Lawyer Referral Service, CLA offers in-person and online educational programs on a variety of arts-related legal issues, ranging from photography and the law to bookkeeping basics for creative professionals. From July 2012 to June 2013 alone, almost 1,000 clients received legal assistance through CLA referrals.
Emily Gische, a UC Hastings College of Law alum, is an associate in the Intellectual Property practice group at Fenwick & West LLP. She focuses her practice on a broad range of trademark matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries. Dedicated to pro bono, Emily has participated in the Justice Bus clinics and the Domestic Violence Limited Scope Representation program, among other projects. While in law school, she was the Executive Articles Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. She competed in the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition, focused on trademark and unfair competition law, in which her team won the Dolores K. Hanna National Best Brief Award.
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