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With a wide range of experience in various industries and jurisdictions, our attorneys have proven experience, successfully litigating cases in the following areas.
Donna Thomas is a partner at Goodell DeVries and represents a broad range of clients in commercial and intellectual property transactions, from publicly-traded corporations making mega-buck acquisitions (Donna closed $150 million in deals in less than three months a while back working through the Thanksgiving holiday to get them done) to the clearance, registration, licensing, protection, and defense of copyrights and trademarks for individuals and businesses, small and large.
Besides being a consummate business lawyer, Donna is also an experienced intellectual property lawyer. She has taught Copyright and Media Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore. She is also a frequent lecturer on intellectual property subjects, including teaching trademark law as an instructor for the Maryland Bar Association, and she is a frequent lecturer at Association of Corporate Counsel Chapters around the country. Donna also served as the Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association and co-authors the six-volume legal treatise, The Law of Advertising and Mass Communications with Jim Astrachan.
Donna has litigated a variety of cases involving intellectual property, advertising, and business issues, from state Circuit Courts to U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and ranging from crayons to counterfeit cigarettes to surgical products.
Donna enjoys an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, has been selected for Super Lawyer® and Best Lawyers® and has been named Baltimore's Best Copyright and Trademark Lawyer by Best Lawyers.