Join us during Alt Legal Connect for hands-on workshops to master your matters and perfect your practice! The 90-minute workshops will include a mix of instruction and guided work time. You will leave with new skills and practical materials from your workshop of choice. Create an employee evaluation plan and template for your firm. Learn how to communicate with in-house teams. Draft office action response templates.
Want to talk about issues that affect you? Sign up instead for a roundtable discussion, where a knowledgeable, passionate professional will lead a guided discussion to help participants arrive at understanding together. Decide for yourself where the line should be between parody and trademark law. Learn from your peers new strategies to market your firm. Figure out how to stay healthy while working so hard to build a new practice.
The choice is yours!
In this roundtable discussion, James Creedon will guide participants through a dive into best firm practices for building a values-based culture internally and for partnering with clients to expand our values into the wider world.
Brandon Leavitt will guide participants through effective ways to read, break down, and respond to TTAB oppositions.
In this roundtable, trademark attorney Taras Kulbaba will moderate a discussion for the participants to share their experiences working with the Madrid System, talk about its advantages and disadvantages, and discuss best practices for international trademark registration and management.
In this roundtable discussion, trademark attorney Daphne Benford-Smith will lead participants in a Socratic roundtable discussion about how to address the tension, both legally and practically, between the First Amendment and trademark protection.
In this roundtable discussion, trademark attorney Janet V. Hallahan of Practus will lead participants in a roundtable discussion about how to answer difficult questions. Participants will discuss tough conversations they've had and arrive at a better understanding of how to be comfortable having difficult conversations with clients.
Ticora Davis will guide participants through a power-packed Standard Operating Procedure training to streamline and strengthen their Office Action responses in order to draft faster responses and accommodate shorter deadlines while seamlessly incorporating culturally-relevant arguments.
Join Tamara Pester Schklar, founder of TMBTQ trademark law boutique, and corporate wellness trainer Michelle Zellner for this roundtable discussion about building a thriving practice without sacrificing your wellbeing.
Join Doppel CEO Kevin Tian to learn how to browse different NFT exchanges for potentially infringing materials and how to submit takedown requests.
In this workshop, former USPTO trademark examining attorney Rachael Dickson will give you a tour of TESS and provide some of her favorite tricks and tips, from truncation and phonetic equivalents to X-searches and coordinated classes.
Gearhart Law partner David Postolski will guide participants through what to include in a cease and desist letter. He'll then help them craft cease and desist templates and checklists specific to their clientele and address how to follow up after the letter.
In this workshop, Phelps and Dunbar attorney Andrew Coffman will teach you how to set up a system to collect evidence of secondary meaning at every step of the branding and registration process and organize it to save time and hassle.
In this workshop, Perkins Coie senior trademark paralegal Emily Quackenbush will guide you through principles of effective client communication to help you set clear expectations and keep clients informed.
Firm for the Culture founder Rukayatu Tijani will share how to lead employees to make them feel motivated, inspired, and excited about their work. In particular, she will offer practical ways to promote clarity and consistency in law firm management, by focusing primarily on employee evaluations.
Join The Hershey Company’s Global IP Manager, Kara Fielder Zioba, to learn principles of effective communication with in-house teams and develop personalized templates to deliver effective, comprehensible messages tailored to them.
In this workshop, Alexandra Svensson will provide tips and tricks for creating a template to share a knockout-plus opinion with clients. She'll walk you through the clearance process from intake to delivery.