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CONTRIBUTORS
Margaret M. Duncan
Is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she currently teaches Pat- ent Law. Previously, she practiced at McDermott Will & Emery for 28 years, including as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice group,
where she was head of the Chicago IP practice for 12 years. She focused her practice on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright protection, litigation and transactions. Professor Duncan is a member of the Illinois Bar and is admitted to practice in numerous federal district and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has been consistently ranked by Best Lawyers, Chambers USA and World Trademark Review as a leading lawyer in IP law. In 2018, Leading Lawyers Magazine listed her in the Top 10 IP attorneys in Illinois. During law school at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, she won first place in the Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Compe- tition, Midwest Region, and first runner-up in the national competition. She also externed for Chief Judge James Benton Parsons in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She served as the 2018-19 president of the Richard Linn American Inn of Court and continues to serve on its Ex- ecutive Committee. She is vice-chair of the Intellectual Prop- erty Law Association of Chicago’s Amicus Committee and is a member of the Enforcement Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA). She also served on INTA’s International Amicus Committee, U.S. Subcomimttee for the past four years. She is a founding member of Human Rights Watch’s Chicago Committee and is one of its Chairs Emerita.
David Hricik
Received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kap- pa from the University of Arizona, where he majored in English. He received his law degree with honors from Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced with Baker Botts
and small litigation boutiques from 1988 to 2002, litigating cases primarily involving patent infringement, legal malprac- tice, and general complex commercial matters. In 2002, he joined Mercer University School of Law, where he has taught legal ethics, patent law and litigation, federal civil procedure, and other courses. He has authored the only treatise on ethi- cal issues in patent litigation, and co-authored the only treatise on ethical issues in patent prosecution. In addition to serving in leadership positions on ethics committees with the Ameri- can Intellectual Property Law Association and American Bar Association and serving as an expert witness, he has written dozens of articles and given well over 200 presentations on issues at the intersection of ethics and technology or intellec- tual property. His articles and testimony have been adopted by both state and federal courts. In 2012-13, he served as law
clerk to Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the Federal Circuit. In 2013, he rejoined Mercer and also became Of Counsel to Taylor English Duma, LLP, where he represented clients in patent and complex litigation until early 2019. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2016 and as a Fellow of the American Intellectual Property Law Association in 2019. Finally, he began authorship of Georgia Law of Torts in 2019.
Karen J. Sneddon
Is Professor of Law at Mercer Uni- versity School of Law. Karen gradu- ated summa cum laude from Louisi- ana State University and summa cum laude from Tulane Law School. Karen was an associate at a New York City Law firm and practiced in the area of
trusts and estates before becoming a Forrester Fellow at Tu- lane Law School. She joined the Mercer University School of Law faculty in 2006. Karen teaches, writes and speaks in the areas of legal writing, wills and real estate transactions. Since 2007, Karen and her Mercer colleague Professor David Hricik have co-authored the regular column Writing Matters for the Georgia Bar Journal.
Peter M. Thall
Is a veteran of 50 years of practicing law. Among his areas of expertise are copyright law; executive employment and compensation agreements; and all transactions generated in the do- mestic and international music pub- lishing and recording fields, including
the sale and purchase of music publishing catalogues. A grad- uate of Columbia University and The National Law Center of The George Washington University School of Law, Thall has represented the interests of many of the world’s greatest art- ists — from Graham Nash to Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Ma- nilow, The Average White Band, ABBA, Ric Ocasek and The Cars, Hall & Oates, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Miles Davis, The Irish Tenors, to the world-renowned Soprano Anna Moffo, violinist Hilary Hahn and multiple classical music composer legends such as Gian Carlo Menotti and the late Julius East- man, who is credited with “inventing” minimalism. The third edition of his book What They’ll Never Tell You About the Mu- sic Business: The Complete Guide for Musicians, Songwriters, Producers, Managers, Industry Executives, Attorneys, Investors, and Accountants is published by Watson-Guptill, an imprint of Random House. Thall is a frequent contributor to the print and visual media, and has appeared on many television news programs as an expert on such issues as the responsibilities, dangers and legal consequences of using pyrotechnics in live performances, celebrity endorsements, copyright law includ- ing copyright terminations, the music business in general and its formidable challenges in the digital era, and the First Amendment.
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