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With over 20 years of legal experience, Karen Schuller Boardman co-founded Alignment Legal, offering proactive, strategic, and client-centered legal services to ensure the stability of our clients’ most valued assets, business, and personal interests.. Karen graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science. After undergraduate studies, Karen spent eight years working as an intellectual property paralegal, continuing to work full-time while attending law school in the evening at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Karen is licensed to practice in Tennessee and North Carolina.. Karen advises both emerging and established business and creative clients in protecting their intellectual property through trademarks and copyrights, with a registration rate over 90%. Karen counsels businesses on entity formation, contract drafting and negotiation, sales transactions, and other day-to-day operational matters. Karen assists nonprofits with organization and tax-exempt status applications, as well as their intellectual property and business needs. Karen works with clients on estate planning, as well as handing administration of estates in probate.. Originally from New Jersey, Karen attended Providence Senior High School in Charlotte. After living in the Triangle area of North Carolina for 24 years, Karen recently moved back to the Queen City in 2018. She and her husband Adam live with their dog Abigail in South Charlotte.

William Bray is the founding member of Bray & Long and manages the firm’s business law group.  He acts as outside general counsel for multiple small to middle market, privately-held companies in the southeast. Additionally, his practice focuses on corporate transactions and mergers and acquisitions, ranging in size from less than $1 million to $50 million.. William has extensive experience in dozens of industries, including finance, retail, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, franchising and construction.  His team works with start-ups as well as national and international companies on all aspects of their respective businesses.  The Bray & Long business law group structures private placements, complex inter-company deals and all manner of commercial relationships.

Memminger E. Wiggins began practicing law in 1996 after graduating from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, located in Lansing, Michigan.  The goal from the beginning was to provide prompt, professional, but yet personal, legal services to his clients.  His North Carolina law practice can be considered a “boutique” law firm in the sense that he limits his practice of law primarily to just those areas of law that includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets. His South Carolina law practice was primarily limited to business/corporate law, probate law and estate planning, and real estate law.. A South Carolina native, Mr. Wiggins received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Clemson University.  He then worked as a research scientist at Clemson University and continued his post-graduate and graduate studies.  After 13 fulfilling years at the university, he decided to pursue a legal career and enrolled into the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.  While attending law school, he served as a law clerk for Michigan’s Attorney General’s Office.. Mr. Wiggins is a licensed attorney in both North Carolina and South Carolina, and admitted to practice before the United States District Court District of South Carolina, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in May of 1996 and to the North Carolina Bar in April of 2010.. His present/past membership/associations include the North Carolina State Bar, South Carolina State Bar, Mecklenburg County Bar Association, Union County Bar Association, York County Bar Assocation, Oconee County Bar Association, Richland County Bar Association, Literacy Council of Union County, Oconee County United Way, the Seneca Chamber of Commerce, the Clemson Chamber of Commerce, the Clemson University Flying Club, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, advisor for the Clemson University Rowing Club, and the Seneca Presbyterian Church.

I have been empowering businesses and individuals for over 10 years. Most of my clients mirror who I am as a person: self-made, hardworking, tenacious, dedicated, innovative, and fearless. Whether it is advising clients on how to protect their business’ assets, or preparing a witness for trial, the goal is always the same: to empower the client, to make them stronger, better, more prepared so that they can reach their goals and succeed. I consider several of my clients to be close personal friends and try to approach each new client with the intention that the relationship be a lasting one.. I have had the unique opportunity to see the practice of law from a variety of different viewpoints having worked for a North Carolina State Court prior to going to law school, clerked for the Department of Justice during law school, and working for a large United States Government contractor and private law firms after graduating law school.. I am a Master Gardener with the North Carolina Mecklenburg County Extension Master Gardeners, and a member of Frazier Park Community Garden.  I am also a member of Carolina Breast Friends where I try to offer advice and comfort to individuals who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer.. After being the first in my family to graduate from college, I left the comfort of my hometown in Eastern North Carolina and moved to Washington, D.C., where I quickly became a foodie.  I prefer to spend my free tim surrounded by nature and can often be seen gardening with my partner George in the front yard of their home, riding my bike to the office, and walking out cats, Roger Parker and Marco Money, on a leash in Freedom Park.

I am a founding partner of the law firm of Hull & Chandler, P.A. Our firm handles a variety of legal issues for small businesses and individuals. My practice is focused primarily on business litigation and transactions while my firm has attorneys focusing on personal injury, estate planning, construction law, imigration and other areas of the law. We strive to offer high level personal service to our clients and will refer matters to highly qualified attorneys when our clients have legal matters that fall outside of our areas of focus.

Al is battle tested as a first chair trial lawyer in litigating high profile cases for many major companies. He has served in over 150 cases, and in federal courts throughout the country, in appellate proceedings before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Fourth, Sixth, and Eight Circuits, as well as in numerous trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.. As a former law clerk, Al has seen numerous trials from the perspective of the judge and the jury. Al has assisted judges and juries in the analysis of motions, conducted research and provided anything that is necessary to facilitate cases and motions.. Al has worked as a certified mediator and understands what works in preparing and representing clients in any settlement discussions, whether in formal mediations or settlement talks.. You Don’t Need the Biggest IP Firm. You Need the Best IP Litigator.. Intellectual property litigation is an inherently expensive undertaking. You don’t need to pay inexperienced associates or large litigation teams. You pay for someone to learn your case thoroughly and present your case at trial in the most succinct and understandable way possible.. Allan IP Litigation will handle your case in an efficient and effective manner, guaranteeing you spend your money where it will do the most good: on a real expert, who focuses on the key issues of the case, not for on-the-job training or costly overhead. Hiring Allan IP Litigation is like hiring the best IP litigator in the firm without hiring the entire firm.. Get the superior talent without the superfluous extras.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Intellectual Property attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.