Edward Klaris is the managing partner at Klaris Law and CEO of KlarisIP. He founded the firms in 2015 after having been a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine, as well as a 17-year stint in-house at ABC/Disney, The New Yorker, and Condé Nast. Since 2005, Ed has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, teaching media law and intellectual property. Since starting Klaris, Ed and the firm have been awarded for their outstanding work many times by such prestigious organizations as Chambers, Best Lawyers, US News & World Report, and the NY Law Journal. The Financial Times and Inc. 5000 both awarded the firm one of the fastest growing businesses in North America. The firm prides itself on being highly responsive to clients and providing first class legal services at reasonable rates fit to client needs. Ed has thrived at building a strong practice and cares deeply about surrounding himself with smart, open-minded colleagues, who share his passion for the work. Over the course of Ed’s career, he has represented clients in a range of business sectors, serving as an advisor and advocate for companies of all sizes. His media and entertainment practice covers publishing, podcasting, movie and TV production, documentaries, pre-publication review, licensing, content distribution, technology, virtual reality, machine learning, online subscriptions and e-commerce businesses, as well as many clients in the arts. Ed’s trademark practice includes studios, major hospitality businesses, producers of luxury goods, lifestyle and gaming companies. The firm has connections with a large network of intellectual property firms around the world. Ed has published many articles and contributed to several books, including three chapters in the American Bar Association’s “Intellectual Property and Technology Due Diligence” published in 2018. He speaks at conferences around the world and is an active member of the Media Law Resource Center and the Association of the Bar of the City of NY. He raised his two children in NYC and now also spends part of the year working from Los Angeles. Ed graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal at Cardozo Law School. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and the federal and state courts in New York.

Kevin J. Greene joined Southwestern’s faculty in 2020. Professor Greene is a nationally recognized entertainment and intellectual property law scholar and an expert witness consultant for copyright, trademark, publicity rights, and entertainment contract disputes. He is a highly committed, outstanding teacher as well as a passionate leader and an IP law influencer. He teaches Contracts and Copyright Law. Professor Greene was most recently a tenured Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. In addition to Contracts and Copyright, he has also taught IP, Entertainment Law, Music Law, Publicity Rights, International Entertainment Law, and IP in the Cannabis Industry. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Greene practiced law in New York at the premier law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he represented high profile companies such as Time Warner and HBO in litigation matters. He later joined New York’s top entertainment law boutique firm, where he represented clients such as film production companies, including Director Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule film company, iconic music artists including Harry Connick, Jr., Bobby Brown, and the seminal rap group Public Enemy. Professor Greene was the first law professor voted a Top Ten attorney by the San Diego Bar in the field of IP in 2005. Professor Greene's scholarship has garnered national and international recognition in the area of intellectual property (“IP”) law, particularly his pioneering work on African-American music and inequality in copyright law. His article on abusive trademark litigation, published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has been the centerpiece of law conferences at Syracuse Law School and NYU. Greene's copyright scholarship is cited in numerous legal publications and has been cited in Congressional hearings. His current project explores intellectual property in the context of hip-hop music. In 2016, the Intellectual Property Institute of the State Bar of California selected Professor Greene as its Vanguard Award winner, the highest award given by the Bar, in the category of Academics. Also in 2016, the government of Taiwan hosted Professor Greene to present a seminar on copyright issues in the context of hip-hop music. In 2018, the American Bar Foundation selected Greene as a fellow. In 2020, Professor Greene was selected by the National Bar Association as a "top 100" attorney in California. Also in 2020, Professor Greene was named an Honorary Advisor/Law Scholar at USIA United Sigma Intelligence Association, an international think tank.

David C. Johnson, Partner, Lippes Mathias LLP: Mr. Johnson, a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Team, focuses his practice on helping businesses manage complex brand issues through intellectual property strategies, prosecution, and enforcement. His clients have ranged from pre-launch start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. He works on a variety of branding and technology-related matters, including social media and advertising, marketing, privacy, product and packaging claims review, and intellectual property transactions. Dave draws on his in-house legal and business experience to help clients plan their long-term business goals and tolerances for risk in strategically managing, building, and protecting multi-national intellectual property portfolios. He also has experience guiding clients through a wide range of commercial transactions including IP acquisitions and licensing, influencer engagements, and publishing agreements. Dave advises influencers, and brands working with influencers, on their disclosure requirements, licensing, merchandising, and engagement agreements. In his consumer privacy practice, Dave counsels clients on the development of privacy compliance programs, privacy notices, contract remediation, and other issues related to obligations under US privacy laws and the extraterritorial aspects of international privacy laws affecting US businesses. While earning his J.D. from William & Mary Law School, Dave served as Executive Editor of the William & Mary Business Law Review, Staff Editor of the William & Mary Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal and was a member of the Business Law Field Consultancy Clinic at William & Mary’s Mason School of Business.

Christopher Kenneally is an award-winning podcast host/producer. He has created dozens of programs covering issues facing the scholarly publishing and the creative communities. Kenneally created the Velocity of Content (Beyond the Book) podcast series for Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) in 2006; the show ran until 2024. As a freelance journalist, Christopher Kenneally has reported for the New York Times and Boston Globe, among many other publications as well as for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio, and WGBH-TV (PBS-Boston). He contributes opinion columns regularly to the Boston Business Journal.