When a T-Rex stands between you and your next level of success, I want to help you find a pathway around it.

Martha enjoys solving complex problems, learning about her clients’ business and technology, connecting them with trusted contacts in her network, and helping them reach their next level of success. 

She is known for her strategic, out-of-the-box thinking and ability to approach challenges from fresh legal and strategic perspectives.  Martha received an Up & Coming Attorney of the Year award for her creative approach to a trademark dispute between The Field Museum’s T-Rex “Sue” and her brewery client’s PseudoSue beer name and label. After she found that the museum had a bar, she worked with The Field Museum and the client to get PseudoSue on tap there, merchandise in their shop, and The Field Museum’s logo on the PseudoSue labeling in a manner that was financially beneficial to the museum and to the brewery.

As an experienced professional advising companies across diverse industries, ranging from craft breweries to medical device manufacturers and to technologies and businesses in between, Martha provides strategic legal counsel and finds innovative solutions that align with clients’ business objectives across intellectual property, regulatory, and corporate issues.  Martha is an engineer and registered patent attorney with the USPTO, and she protects and enforces intellectual property with a practical, phased approach.  Martha assists startups to established companies in safeguarding their competitive edge and enhancing the value of their business through the acquisition, maintenance, and enforcement of intellectual property rights – whether that’s patents, trademarks or copyrights.  Martha also advises clients on other technology-related concerns like data privacy. 

As a former general counsel at a global, publicly traded company, Martha gained invaluable exposure to a wide range of legal and corporate issues and continues to provide general counsel services to many clients.