Baker Botts L.L.P.

Intellectual Property / Branding, Advertising & Copyright

Partner

Section Chair - Branding, Advertising & Copyright (Firmwide)

Suzi is a hands-on trademark practitioner who partners with clients to secure, protect, promote, and defend their brands from creation through litigation. Her practice focuses on trademark, advertising and copyright litigation, prosecution, and counseling, and also encompasses diligence investigations, drafting and negotiation of IP and marketing agreements, advertising claims review, and counseling concerning promotions. Suzi represents clients in trademark, copyright and advertising litigation in federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the National Advertising Division.

Suzi has represented clients in a number of different industries including computer and consumer electronics, retail, apparel, telecommunications, energy, financial services, entertainment, food and beverage, leisure and hospitality, food packaging, facilities management and architectural products.

Suzi is committed to her clients and to the community in which she works and lives. She is the Chair of the New York office’s Pro Bono Committee and sits on the Steering Committee for the firms’ strategic collaboration with Official Black Wall Street (OBWS), an organization with a membership of more than 5,500 Black-owned businesses globally.

New York State Bar

United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Trademark Committee, Former Member

International Trademark Association, Member

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Member

J.D., Fordham University School of Law 2006 magna cum laude Member, Fordham Law Review Order of the Coif Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award

B.A., English, University of Virginia 2000 with honors Phi Beta Kappa Golden Key National Honor Society