A graduate of Harvard Law School,
Mark has over 25 years of experience as a trademark lawyer, including experience as counsel to R.J.R Nabisco, expert adviser for the World
Intellectual Property Organization, and witness in the "Trial of the Century."
As an attorney, Mark has been hired by many of the world's best known
corporations - including Nike, MasterCard, Nabisco, Kraft, Navistar,
PepsiCo and others - for litigation, transactions, dispute resolution and intellectual property strategy. He has litigated cases in courts across the country, including trials in New York, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and Massachusetts.
He is the author of the books Alternative Dispute Resolution: An Essential Competency for Lawyers (Oxford University Press 2009); Intellectual Property for Professional Speakers (2009); Guiding Rights: Trademarks, Copyright
and the Internet (2003) and co-author of a chapter entitled
"Intellectual Property: Protect What is Yours and Avoid Taking What
Belongs to Someone Else" in the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning
Professions (2008). His article "Copyrights and Wrongs: How to avoid
committing copyright infringements when creating training materials"
appeared in the November 2008 issue of HR Magazine.
Mark is
the past president for the Illinois Chapter of the National Speakers
Association and a resource speaker for Vistage International, the
world's largest CEO membership organization.