BIOGRAPHY AND QUALIFICATIONS
JENNIFER L. WHITELAW, Attorney
Ms. Whitelaw's practice is devoted exclusively to foreign and domestic trademark, copyright, unfair competition, product anti-counterfeiting, licensing, contracts, art and entertainment law matters, including federal litigation throughout the courts of the United States.
Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Florida, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C.; United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; United States Court of International Trade; United States District Courts; Trial Bar for the Middle District of Florida
Member of American Bar Association; American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section; ABA Committee on Unfair Competition/Trade Identity and Right of Publicity Subcommittee; ABA Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee; American Bar Association Litigation Section; International Trademark Association (INTA); Florida Bar; Florida Bar Business Law Section, Intellectual Property Law Committee; Florida Bar Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section; Faculty Member - Art Institute of Naples, Art Law/Copyright Law; Member at large - ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
Panelist and speaker at invitation of U.S. Commisioner of Trademarks - Trademark Office Goes eGovernment, March 2002, Florida Bar CLE Lecturer - Trademark/Trade Dress Protection in Original Works of Art; Publisher and author of newsletter, Market Intelligence®; Columnist - Florida Arts, Music and Entertainment News Network, Creative Alliance of Florida and Florida Music Network; Student Law Clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Listed yearly as one of the nation's Top Trademarkers, Intellectual Property Today, Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Award 1995, participated as lead trial counsel in numerous cases including these published decisions.
Named Top Intellectual Property "Go-To Lawyer When Winning is a Must" in Southwest Florida, by Gulfshore Life Magazine July 2007
Ms. Whitelaw received her law degree from Stetson University College of Law*, she was included on the honor roll, in Moot Court she won the unanimous verdict of all judges, she also won Mock Trial, by jury verdict.
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*Stetson is Florida's oldest Law School. Stetson is also one of the first law schools in the nation to require pro bono service by students and faculty. It is the only law school in the nation to win all five national-level law school trial competitions in one academic year. Stetson University College of Law ranked first in the nation for trial advocacy training, according to the U.S. News and World Report "2002 America’s Best Graduate Schools" survey. Since the trial advocacy specialty rating was added to the annual survey in 1995, Stetson has consistently rated number 1 or near the top in trial advocacy among all accredited law schools in the nation. The year 2004-2005 was no different. No other law school has achieved such a remarkable record of success. In July of 2000, Stetson University College of Law’s Student Bar Association was named the top student organization in the United States by the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association (ABA). The award recognizes the best overall Student Bar Association in the country.
