Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Ms. Amron is a partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and Chair of the technology and intellectual property group. She counsels clients in sophisticated domestic and foreign trademark and copyright matters, strategic brand protection, policing and infringement, and domain names. She represents clients in licensing, acquisition and sales, due diligence, intellectual property audits, confidentiality, and trade dress matters and has significant experience in conflict resolution and negotiated settlements.

Career highlights include:

• Being responsible for thousands of domestic and foreign trademarks, some of which are American icons
• Structuring and negotiating complex third party licenses, copyright, domain, and internet issues and providing due diligence in acquisitions and divestitures for a Fortune 500 company
• Negotiating multi-million dollar licenses of trend-setting clothing brands
• Being named one of the top Intellectual Property Lawyers in 2004 in the Washingtonian Magazine and the 2004 lawyer of the year by the Women's Bar of the District of Columbia
• Structuring and implementing license programs and quality control oversight for multimillion dollar licenses
• Counseling a government contractor on copyright and trademark rights in software deliverables, including competitors' rights to use deliverables to create derivative works

Ms. Amron is a member of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Women's Bar of the District of Columbia, the Virginia State Bar, and the International Trademark Association. Ms. Amron is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Ms. Amron has presented at numerous seminars on intellectual property and other topics, including trademarks, intellectual property rights in China, licensing, negotiation techniques, drafting and negotiating written contracts, and issues related to women lawyers.

Ms. Amron received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. with distinction from the University of Rochester.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, 2008 (Member, Standing Committee on Public Education)
• American Bar Association (Out of the Box Committee)
• American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education (Co-Chair)
• American Bar Association, 2000 - Present (Diversity Subcommittee)
• American Bar Association, 2002 - 2005 (President's Advisory Council on Diversity)
• American Bar Association, 1998 - 2002 (Member, Commission on Domestic Violence)
• American Bar Association, 1987 - 1998 (Commission on Women in the Profession)
• American Bar Association, 1991 - 1994 (Chair)
• American Bar Association, 1988 - 1992 ("MacCrate" Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing Gap)
• American Bar Association, Multicultural Women Lawyer's Network, 1989 - 1991 (Joint Committee of Commission on Women and Commission on Minorities)
• American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, 1981 - 1989
• American Bar Foundation – ABA, D.C. Chapter, 2001 - 2003 (Chair)
• American Bar Foundation – ABA, 1999 - 2001 (Vice Chair)
• American Bar Foundation – ABA, 1997 - 1999 (Secretary)
• District of Columbia Bar, 1994 - 1996 (Member, Task Force on Reproductive Cancer)
• District of Columbia Bar, 1986 - 1989 (Chair, Commercial Real Estate Committee)
• Bar Association of District of Columbia, 1997 - Present (Quality of Life Award Committee)
• Bar Association of D.C., Young Lawyer's Section, 1980 - 1989
• Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 1979 - Present
• Women's Bar Foundation, 1981 - 1986 (Auditor-Board of Directors)

Honors and Awards

• Washingtonian Magazine,Top Lawyers-Intellectual Property, 2007
• Washington D.C. Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property, 2007
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1990
• Fellow, American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
• Top IP Lawyers, Washingtonian Magazine, 2004
• Lawyer of the Year, Women's Bar Association of D.C., 2004
• "Stars of the Bars," Women's Bar Association of D.C., 2003
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Young Lawyers Section, James Eastman Award, 1991
• Featured in "D.C. Firms Exceed Average in Women Partners," E. Kerlow, Legal Times, (Vol. XI, No. 36), February 13, 1989
• Featured in "20 Young Lawyers Who Make a Difference," Barrister Magazine, Summer (Special Issue), 1988

Pro Bono Activities

• D.C. Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services, 1980 - 1985
• Community Member (Appointed by the Mayor), D.C. Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services
• Chair, D.C. Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services, Bylaws Committee and Regulations Committee
• Temple Rodef Shalom, Long Range Planning Committee, 1998 - Present
• Temple Rodef Shalom, Board of Directors, 1996 - Present

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
  J.D.
• University of Rochester, 1974
  B.A.
  Honors: With Distinction

Published Works

• "On-Line Infringement are Central in Today's IP Landscape," Co-Author with William H. Oldach, September, 2008
• "Choosing, Using and Protecting Trademarks", 2007
• "Diversity in Legal Education: A Broader View, A Deeper Commitment", Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 52 No. 4 (December), 2002
• "Take Care with Intellectual Property Outside the US", Washington Business Journal, August 31, 1988
• "Don't Just Hear it Through the Grapevine; Studying Gender Questions at your Law School," American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Editor, ABA Press, 1998
• "Elusive Equality: The Experiences of Women in Legal Education," American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Chapter Author and Editor, ABA Press, 1996
• "Lawyers and Balanced Lives: A Guide to Drafting and Implementing Workplace Policies for Lawyers," American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Chapter Author and Editor, ABA Press, 1990
• District of Columbia Practice Manual, Chapter Author, Editor and Steering Committee Member, District of Columbia Bar Press, 1987
• Metropolitan Area Statutes, Chapter Author and Editor-in-Chief, 2d Ed., Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Young Lawyers Section, 1984
• "Home Sweet Office: Law Firm Life," Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to be a Lawyer, Peterson's Guides, 1989
• Professionalism; The Real Bottom Line, Chapter Author, ublication of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, 1989
• "A Forum for Female Lawyers; Book Review of 'Women Lawyers, Perspective on Success' by Emily Couric" , Trial Magazine, July, 1984
• "ABA Recognizes Barriers to Women in the Profession", MemberNet, Vol. 4 No. 1 (October), 1988
• "Publish or Perish", MemberNet, Vol. 1 No. 3 (January), 1986

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