Max Tyler centers his practice on intellectual property matters involving trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and online fraud.
He has experience in investigating and enforcing against cybersquatters and spammers targeting multinational corporations in a broad range of industries. Max's practice experience includes managing comprehensive online enforcement programs and investigating online fraud and spam. Max's IP transactional experience includes coexistence agreements, copyright assignments, and licensing agreements.
Max has also represented pro bono clients on matters including COVID-19 compassionate release litigation under the First Step Act of 2018, and litigation before the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) arbitration panel for a global human rights organization.
Max earned his J.D. from Emory University School of Law. While in law school, he was selected as an inaugural member of the Google Legal Summer Institute, a program designed to expose law students to intellectual property practice areas. Max also worked for the Georgia Innocence Project, where he worked to help correct and prevent wrongful convictions in Georgia. Prior to entering the legal field, Max received his M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and worked as a reporter and senior researcher for ESPN The Magazine.
Founded in 2002, Reginald D. McDaniel, Attorney at Law, LLC prides itself on providing quality legal services to those in need. The firm strongly believes that individuals and families who have been seriously injured or killed by the negligence of others deserve someone who will fight for their rights to recover damages.
Attorney Background
Prior to entering private practice, Attorney McDaniel worked in federal government, television and print media, public relations, and sports information. He brings a unique perspective to solving complex legal issues with over 25 years of federal management, administrative, and executive experience combined with 23 years of legal experience.
Recognition & Awards
Named to Birmingham's Top Lawyers (2014), Top 100 National Trial Lawyers, and National Black Lawyers Top 100 Association annually since 2015.
Practice Areas
Attorney McDaniel’s firm specializes in Employment & Discrimination Law, Business & Governmental Relations, Serious Medical Malpractice/Personal Injury, and Entertainment Law. He also practices complex civil litigation, representing plaintiffs and businesses nationwide in cases involving catastrophic injury, catastrophic birth injury, wrongful death, and negligence litigation.
Approach to Clients
Attorney McDaniel selectively takes cases, preparing them diligently with an unwavering focus on client needs and best interests. While the firm prioritizes serious cases, it also assists clients with smaller personal injury claims.
Community & Mentorship
Committed to underserved communities in the Wiregrass area of Southeast Alabama, Attorney McDaniel takes pride in his talented team of attorneys and experts and is actively involved in mentoring and grooming new lawyers.
Types of Cases Handled
Attorney McDaniel has successfully represented clients in matters including, but not limited to, catastrophic injury, employment discrimination, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect, wrongful death, 18-wheeler litigation, auto accidents, insurance fraud and bad faith, defective products, and social security disability.
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 helps clients protect brands through strategic intellectual property portfolio management and enforcement.
She advises clients with trademark, copyright, advertising, social media, and complex brand protection and management issues. With a background in intellectual property valuation, Tiffany deeply understands and respects the worth of intangible assets and enjoys helping clients maximize their value. As a trademark and copyright lawyer, Tiffany works with brand owners and managers nationally and globally to protect their intellectual property across a wide array of industries, including medical devices, financial services, food and beverage, outdoor sports and hunting, logistics, direct marketing, online retail marketplaces, entertainment, health care, apparel, cosmetics, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. She counsels clients through all aspects of brand selection, protection, and risk management issues, such as claim substantiation, comparative advertising, influencer marketing, and promotions.
Education & Admissions
- DePaul University College of Law (J.D., 2009)
- Indiana University (B.S., Finance, 2001)
Admissions
- Illinois
- Utah
- U.S. District Courts for the District of Utah and Northern District of Illinois
Languages
Clerkships
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Honorable Ronald Guzmán