Top best Intellectual Property Lawyers in ZIP 28209 | 2 available

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.