Lisa is a partner in Reed Smith’s Intellectual Property Group. She focuses her legal practice on intellectual property matters with a focus on Life Sciences and Fintech. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Lisa was a tenured science teacher at a high school in New York City. She taught chemistry, environmental science, biology and health education during her seven-year tenure.
Lisa has litigated patent, trade secret and breach of contract matters in district courts and before an arbitration panel. A registered patent attorney, Lisa also appears on behalf of clients before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, including proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She has broad and extensive experience in the day-to-day managing of complex intellectual property cases from pre-suit investigation through trial and has litigated matters involving automated securities trading, RFID tracking technology, agricultural products, specialty chemicals and chemical processes, and pharmaceuticals.
Lisa is an experienced practitioner in cases focusing on complex technical subject matter where her technical background and high school teaching experience allows her to understand technical and scientific principles quickly and effectively communicate them to non-scientific, lay people.
Lisa’s versatile experience in IP is an asset to the firm’s Global Corporate Group and its clients for whom she regularly conducts IP due diligence on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and growth equity transactions, in particular, for emerging companies, and private equity transactions.
