AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Drafting IP Contracts, Licensing Assignment Agreements
• Contract and Settlement Negotiation
• Independent Contractor/Employment Drafting and Counseling
• Intellectual Property Prosecution and Strategy
• Project Management
• Corporate Structuring, Duties and Maintenance
• Risk Management and Assessment
• eCommerce and Cyberlaw Compliance
• Copyright Counseling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
New Leaf Legal, LLC
Attorney & Managing Member, November 2009-Present

• Founding Member, engaging in nearly every matter that needs to be addressed by a growing firm: operations, business development, sales, financials and marketing.
• Serve the legal needs of emerging business, including corporate structuring, team building and employment, negotiations and non-litigious dispute resolution, and contracting with third parties for various matters including distribution of product and licensing of intellectual property.
• Primary areas of practice: Corporate and Intellectual Property (Trademark and Copyright)
• Primary client industries include e-commerce, new media and entertainment and leisure companies, including the music, food and beverage, video gaming and travel industries.
• Engage in new client acquisition and client relationship maintenance daily, including legal advice and client counsel.
• Regularly provide advice and counsel to clients regarding their specific legal and business needs.

Exemplar Law Partners, LLC
Legal Intern & Law Clerk, Sept 2007-November 2008
Attorney, November 2008-Present
Vice President, May 2009-Present

• Developed Exemplar Entertainment Group, focusing on development of artists and other creatives across the Entertainment Industry, including intellectual property licensing (mainly copyrights), trademark, and corporate structuring and maintenance.
• Key member of Exemplar team, participating in firm development and making decisions on internal and external policy and strategy.
• Regularly and actively participate in business development, including new client acquisition and current client relationship-building and need assessment.
• Performed extensive contractual review, drafting and negotiation on corporate matters, entertainment and other areas of IP law, including content licensing, royalty and publishing contracts.
• Corporate experience includes drafting of independent contractor and employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, entity formation and counseling on corporate duties and maintenance.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in trademark law, including due diligence, filing, responding to Office Actions and composing cease and desist letters.

Tufts University
Guest Professor, Spring 2009

• Taught course entitled Music Business: A 21st Century Approach.
• Designed customer course and curriculum.
• Topics included rights associated with copyright ownership, licensure of copyrights, publishing contracts and recording agreements, and branding and marketing of artists and other creatives.
• Counseled students through writing of several substantive papers on a variety of issues in entertainment, including editing.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts
Legal Intern, Summer 2007

• Independently drafted and reviewed recording agreements and television licensing agreements. Participated in cases about a myriad of issues, from copyright infringement to landlord tenant law and artist's estate planning.
• Oversaw coordination of client referral services, including extensive client contact and client counseling under supervising attorney James Grace, Esq.
• Collaborated with attorney Brenda Ulrich, Esq. to receive co-writing credit for article to be published in the Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Art Management, Law and Society.

PUBLICATIONS
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Winter 2008, Article focusing on amendments to M.G.L. 104A, Art Consignment Law
Blogs: http://theheadliningact.blogspot.com (copyright and other issues in entertainment)
Twitter.com/sjamieson

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
'Cane Records, Coral Gables, FL
Vice President of Business Affairs, March 2003-June 2004

• Oversaw department dealing with contractual relations, including procuring mechanical licenses for label's musical projects.
• Negotiated and contracts for performers.
• Oversaw website development.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Boston Bar Association
American Bar Association
Attorney Member, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

EDUCATION
Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA
Juris Doctor
Intellectual Property Law Concentration Recipient

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Music Business and the Entertainment Industries
Minors in both Business Law and Spanish

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, England
Study Abroad, January-June 2004