Wilson Sonsini
Century City Office
and Virtual
Business leaders in the fashion, beauty, and entertainment fields have their own set of legal challenges when it comes to marketing and advertising—embracing the opportunities of social media and mobile marketing, leveraging celebrity endorsements, highlighting a commitment to ESG best-practices, navigating third-party content, building and enforcing intellectual property rights, and ensuring compliance with the latest advertising law developments, to name a few. This seminar will address these and other issues, highlighting recent legal developments and focusing on practical steps that marketing and communications professionals, in-house lawyers, and legal professionals can take to strengthen the position of their marketing, communications, content, and brands.
Among the topics to be discussed:
This session will address these and other issues, while focusing on practical steps that marketers and in-house lawyers can take to manage risk and avoid pitfalls that arise with promotional giveaways.
Shelly Jackson
shelly.jackson@wsgr.comAaron heads the trademarks, copyrights, and advertising practice focusing on the areas of trademark, advertising, unfair competition, copyright, internet, retail, and consumer law.
Alyssa Worsham focuses on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically. Alyssa advises on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance (i.e., the rules surrounding marketing texts and calls), FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with software companies, biotech start-ups, cosmetics companies, fashion companies, life sciences and digital health companies, agro-tech companies, consumer products, non-profits, and game developers, among others. She advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on the critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection, and strategy.
Victor has extensive experience as a commercial litigator in a wide range of complex business disputes at both the trial and appellate levels.
Kelly Yin focuses her practice on counseling and litigation concerning the internet, data privacy, entertainment, and intellectual property for companies across sectors including in technology, media, and e-commerce.