Marissa Crespo

Marissa Crespo is an entertainment and business law attorney, author, and entrepreneur. As the principal of Crespo Law Office, P.C., she represents entertainment content creators, multi-national publicly traded companies, private corporations, and media conglomerates in complex commercial deals and entertainment transactions.

Acknowledging her passion to bring more of a personable approach as a lawyer, while leveraging her previous corporate experience working for an AmLaw 100 firm, Ms. Crespo chose a more entrepreneurial path in starting her own law firm to provide premium quality representation, with a culture centered on exceptional customer service and professionalism. Noted as the self-proclaimed "The Culture Curator®" she creatively crafts and curates intellectual property works from a legal perspective to help protect the cultural narrative and voices of her clients. Whether she is representing more conservative corporations or more progressive, entrepreneurial content creators and companies, Ms. Crespo provides a chameleon-style approach to adapt to the short-term and long-term business goals of each client.

In the entertainment industry, Ms. Crespo has been involved in deals for television shows on major networks such as NBC, VH1, Bravo, and WE tv, including such shows as Love and Hip-Hop and the Real Housewives franchises, and has negotiated development deals for scripted and unscripted television shows and films. She has negotiated brand sponsorships and IP licensing deals on behalf of writers, and new media adult and kid influencers, secured the registration and SAG-AFTRA franchising of minority and women-owned talent agencies and management firms throughout the country, and has successfully drafted and negotiated film deals for directors, writers, actors, and production companies as production legal counsel on films that have premiered at Tribeca and Sundance.

A frequent writer and panelist on entertainment-related issues, Ms. Crespo has been published by Thomson Reuters and in leading entertainment trade journals such as Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts and the New York Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal, and is currently a freelance writer for Screencraft, and is a member of the Authors Guild.

Bar Admissions:

New York, New Jersey, Georgia

Certifications:

Fashion Law Certificate, Fordham Law School

Tiffany Shimada

Tiffany D.W. Shimada is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology and Trademark & Brand Management Group in Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City office. Tiffany focuses her practice on helping clients with trademark, copyright, advertising, social media, and complex brand protection and management issues. She works with brand owners and managers nationally and globally to protect their intellectual property across a wide array of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, agribusiness, search engine optimization management, outdoor sports and hunting, logistics, direct marketing, online retail marketplaces, entertainment, health care, apparel, cosmetics, renewable energy, and mining operations. Tiffany counsels clients through all aspects of brand selection, protection, and risk management issues, such as claim substantiation, comparative advertising, influencer marketing, and promotions involving sweepstakes and contests.

Concentrations

Brand management and protection

Intellectual property

Food and beverage

Social media advertising and influencer marketing

Capabilities

Intellectual Property & Technology Trademark & Brand Management Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Restaurant Industry Marketing, Advertising, Sweepstakes & Promotions Law

Representative Matters

Advertising review and clearance of product packaging, promotional materials, and commercials for global electronics device manufacturer.°

Advice regarding social media advertising and influencer marketing issues, and related agreements.°

Global trademark prosecution and enforcement for large international online marketplace, industrial consumer products, and educational services provider.°

U.S. trademark portfolio management for large international food and beverage company.°

Global brand protection and enforcement for leading health care technology services provider.°

Clearance of brand names for global cosmetics, apparel, and consumer products companies.°

Initiation and settlement of TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings.°

Defense and settlement of trademark infringement claims asserted against clients' products and brand extensions.°

Takedown of counterfeit website with Internet protocol hosting company.°

Transfer of infringing domain names to clients through Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) actions.°

Experience in alcohol beverage brand name clearance, including TTB COLA label reviews.°

Advice on trademark enforcement strategy for global health care provider and educational services provider.°

Enforcement of client copyright rights through notice and take-down procedure under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).°

IP diligence and acquisition support related to acquisition of large outdoor retailer brand.°

Assist global hunting goods company with recordation and maintenance of trademarks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prevent entry of counterfeit goods.°

°The above representations were handled by Ms. Shimada prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

Recognition & Leadership

Professional & Community Involvement

Board Member, Utah Black Chamber

Advisory Board Member and Member of Diversity & Inclusion Committee, KUER

Co-Chair of Minority Trial Lawyer Committee, American Bar Association

Member, David K. Winder IP Inn of Court

Member, Women Lawyers of Utah

Member, International Trademark Association (INTA)

Member, Copyright Society of the USA

Member, National Bar Association

Member, Utah Bar Association

Member, Illinois Bar Association

Education

J.D., DePaul University College of Law, 2009

B.S., Indiana University, 2001

Admissions

Utah

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Kunbi Sijuwade-Odubogun

Kunbi Sijuwade-Odubogun is an industry leading business attorney and speaker with over 15 years of experience in the legal and creative industries. Through her practice in New York, Kunbi has carved a niche in the legal industry, specializing in an array of practice areas that cater to the evolving needs of businesses and entrepreneurs. With a keen eye for detail and an unwavering commitment to her clients’ success, Kunbi has built a reputation as a trusted legal advisor to startups, small businesses, and creative professionals. Kunbi’s practice areas encompass a comprehensive range of services designed to support business growth and legal compliance. She offers support in business formation, helping clients establish and structure their entities; intellectual property, focusing on trademark registration and protection; contract drafting and negotiation to safeguard business interests; and business immigration services, assisting companies in navigating the complexities of work visas and green card processes for their talent. Her approach integrates her extensive legal knowledge with a practical understanding of business dynamics to deliver solutions that align with her clients' strategic objectives. In addition to her legal work Kunbi is also the creator of two online businesses – Legally Set, a contract template shop offering ready-made contract templates for creative entrepreneurs, and the recently acquired Perfete, a luxury events and lifestyle resource. A graduate of Fordham University School of Law and holding a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Kansas, Kunbi is an active member of the American Bar Association and the National Black Lawyers Association.

Leanthony Edwards, Jr.

An experienced intellectual property and data privacy attorney, Leanthony focuses on counseling clients at the intersection of entertainment, technology, big data, and new media. He utilizes the law as a tool to solve clients’ problems by helping them protect and enforce their trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets from misuse online and in the marketplace.
Leanthony skillfully navigates the USPTO for clients from selection and clearance of a trademark to representing clients in administrative proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He is also a member of the team managing, supervising and overseeing an international trademark and copyright portfolio in numerous countries for a high-profile billion-dollar ecommerce and retail company. This work includes complex intellectual property licensing frameworks in more than 100 countries.
Clients appreciate Leanthony’s commitment to results, ability to process a lot of complex information and build an executable strategy, and ability to work on large-scale projects domestically and in numerous foreign countries. He maintains an open line of communication with clients and enjoys the partnership working as a team to add value to their brand.
He has knowledge and experience in privacy law and has obtained the information privacy professional U.S. certification through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US). Leanthony’s experience in this space includes internal and external policy drafting, performing data privacy due diligence, incident response and breach notification, and steering clients through a field of privacy compliance laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the CAN-SPAM Act, the FCC’s Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) regulations, the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Leanthony’s experience is a natural fit with clients in the entertainment, gaming, new media, software and technology industries, and sports industries where his background benefits clients with needs involving content media licensing and other technology agreements, social media, general marketing, advising on FTC guidelines, and promotion restrictions.

Fraline Allgaier

Fraline J. Allgaier is an intellectual property law attorney in Glencoe, Illinois. As the founder of Allgaier Patent Solutions, she represents clients throughout the United States who need legal assistance with regard to patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Since 2008, she has focused her practice on patents related to medicine, medical imaging and instrumentation, scientific instruments, household products, and the life sciences.
After earning a B.S. in biology from Texas Southern University in 1994, Ms. Allgaier went on to graduate in 1996 summa cum laude with an M.S. in biology, again from Texas Southern University. In 2004, she earned her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School. Admitted to practice in Illinois and the District of Columbia, Ms. Allgaier is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Prior to attending law school, Ms. Allgaier worked as a research associate in the Section of Leukocyte Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. During law school, she worked in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender as a senior law student, representing clients who had been charged with misdemeanors and felonies.
An active participant in several professional organizations, Ms. Allgaier is a lifetime member of the Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc., and she also belongs to the National Association of Patent Practitioners and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. In addition, she is a member of the Chicago and Cook County bar associations, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the Illinois State Bar Association. As a member of the American Bar Association, Ms. Allgaier belongs to its Business Law Section and its Section of Intellectual Property Law. As an African American Patent Attorney, she is an active member of The Chicago's first Black Inventors Organization and provides assistance to African American Inventors throughout the United States.
PATENT ATTORNEY : Reg. No. 63,548 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit District of Columbia Court of Appeals District of Columbia Bar Illinois Supreme Court
EDUCATION BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Texas Southern University MS, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Texas Southern University JD, University of Illinois Chicago Law School
HONORS & BAR ORGANIZATIONS Top 25 Trial Lawyers – The National Trial Lawyers National Women (Specialty Division) Top Women Attorneys in Illinois Rising Stars The National Black Lawyers – Top 100 (Illinois) Top Attorneys in Illinois Rising Stars 2014-2021 Lifetime Member of Black Women Lawyers Association of Chicago American Intellectual Property Law Association National Association of Patent Practitioners American Bar Association Cook County Bar Association Chicago Bar Association Illinois State Bar Association District of Columbia Bar Association Texas Southern University Distinguished Alumni Award