Rob's practice focuses on legal issues and agreements involving technology, entertainment and corporate law.  He frequently acts as general counsel for companies, including new companies in the technology and entertainment industries.  Rob also represents purchasers of information technology related products and services. Much of his time is spent negotiating and drafting agreements and corporate documents.  Rob's practice includes trademark, copyright, Internet, privacy and corporate law.
     
Rob is actively involved in many IP related professional organizations.  He is a founding board member of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association.  Rob
served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section's  Subcommittee on Policies for Managing Generic Top Level Domains of the Special Committee on Trademarks and the Internet during the 1998-1999 term, and from 1999 to 2001, Rob chaired that committee.  Rob has served on the Board of Directors of SERIS,  a leading non-profit Internet organization in the Southeast, as well as on the Board of Directors of IMAGE, a   leading non-profit independent film and video organization in the Southeast. He has also served on the board and/or committees of the Georgia Chapter of the International Interactive Communications Society and the Southeastern Software Association.   He was the Chairman and co-founder of the 1995 Atlanta Interactive Media Expo. 

Rob teaches Information Security Law in the Professional Education Program at Georgia Tech.  He has given numerous presentations on various legal issues concerning software, entertainment, internet, copyright, and trademark law.  From time to time, Rob has appeared on television programs to discuss issues relating to Internet law.

Rob is the co-author of Volume 5 on Internet and Interactive Media Law of LexisNexis' 10 volume treatise on Entertainment Law Contracts.  He has a column entitled "Frequently Asked Questions about Intellectual Property and Corporate Law" that regularly appears in the Gwinnett Business Journal and also has written numerous articles which have been published concerning software, entertainment, internet, copyright, and trademark law.

Rob has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer"  in the Georgia edition of Law and Policy Magazine many times (approximately 5% of  the lawyers in Georgia), recognized as a member of the "Legal Elite" in Georgia Trend Magazine (about 200 of the 23,000 lawyers in Georgia) and also has previously been named as a "Fellow" by the highly selective Knights of the Bar.

Rob graduated from The Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.  While attending Georgia Tech, he was a co-op for the Georgia Power Company.  He attended law school at The University of Georgia, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Georgia Law Review and graduated cum laude

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