Proactive compliance with consumer and business laws is the best protection from marketing risks and liabilities.

You’ll find Your Ad Attorney’s approach to marketing legal services avoids typical legal hurdles and makes better business sense for every size business.

Here’s what sets
Your Ad Attorney
apart:

Comprehensive marketing legal advice

Your Ad Attorney is an experienced marketing attorney — and business advocate. This balanced perspective developed from helping local, national, and global brands comply with business and consumer laws – and advocating in roles as outside counsel and in-house corporate counsel.

Approach to marketing law compliance

What’s legal is not always best for business. Your Ad Attorney balances what’s legal and what’s ethical with an intent to cultivate greater marketplace credibility and consumer confidence in your business, while complying with laws.  

Flat Rates

No hidden fees or surprise billing. You’ll receive a flat fee from Your Ad Attorney for each of your projects for price certainty. 

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Predictable turnaround times

When can you expect Your Ad Attorney’s legal feedback for your project? Expect feedback in five business days, for most matters. Legal review predictability is essential in supporting your marketing production and timelines.

Clear legal feedback

Get plain English, not legalese from Your Ad Attorney. Each legal review project results in easy-to-understand points and summaries in a format non-lawyers will quickly and easily comprehend and implement. 

MEET THE TEAM

Alina Lee

Founding Partner

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Expertise

with the full life cycle of marketing from concept and development to distribution:

  • Advised many major, multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns from start to finish 
  • Reviewed 100+ discount-offer and free-offer promotions
  • Written terms for many sweepstakes and giveaways
  • Reviewed ads in all the existing and emerging digital platforms (e.g., web TV, video, radio, billboards, digital banners, outbound and inbound calling, podcasts, social media, and more) 

Education

J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
B.A., The University of Georgia

Experience

formerly served as in-house corporate counsel and outside counsel to public and private corporations: 

  • MAILCHIMP: Former Senior Corporate Counsel for all marketing initiatives, trademark portfolio, and IP licensing
  • SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS: Former Senior Corporate Counsel for retail gas business  
  • MORRIS MANNING & MARTIN LLP: Former outside counsel for technology mergers & acquisitions
  • ROGERS & HARDIN LLP: Former outside counsel for mergers & acquisitions, securities regulation, corporate governance, real estate finance, and general corporate law 

David Bennett

Senior Associate Attorney

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Expertise

as a business owner and attorney focusing on intellectual property law and regulatory compliance, I have:

  • Helped many startups and large businesses protect their brands and inventions
  • Guided clients through new and emerging regulatory frameworks
  • Built multiple businesses from the ground up
  • Registered Patent Attorney with the U.S. Patent Office

Education

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
B.S. Chemistry, Ball State University

Experience

  • VERHAGEN BENNETT LLP: Former co-founder of Los Angeles-based business law firm, primarily practicing patent and trademark law
  • DEVINCO GROUP LLC: Former co-founder of and general counsel for a Los Angeles-focused regulatory compliance consultancy firm
  • MMLG LLC: Former regulatory licensing and compliance consultant for highly-regulated businesses across the country
  • THE FOUNDER’S ATTORNEY: Former “of counsel” intellectual property attorney helping clients manage their IP rights and portfolios

Sydnee Mack

Senior Associate Attorney

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Expertise

as an attorney and professor who has served as a solo practitioner and in-house counsel, I have:

  • Negotiated over $50,000 in settlements for online trademark infringement claims
  • Advised many multi-million dollar businesses on brand protection strategies
  • Negotiated and reviewed 100+ contracts for clients including: client services, IP licensing agreements, sponsorship, talent and influencer agreements
  • Authored #1 Amazon Best-Selling book—10 Steps to Startup: Legal Protections & Organizational Strategies to Get Your New Business Up and Running

Education

J.D., Emory University School of Law
B.A. Public Relations and Communications, Hampton University

Experience

  • EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: Current Lecturer of Law focusing on intellectual property, IP licensing, and Sports Law
  • LEARFIELD LLC: Former Staff Attorney for the Collegiate Licensing Company, a LEARFIELD subsidiary, handling general transactional matters, trademark licensing, and brand protection
  • SYDNEE MACK ATTORNEY AT LAW LLC: Former founder and owner of a transactional law firm specializing in trademarks, sports & entertainment, and general business matters
  • GOLF USA TEE TIME COALITION: Former outside counsel for contract review and negotiation, general business compliance, and brand protection
  • DEKALB COUNTY STATE COURT: Former Senior Law Clerk for all four Division II state court judges handling judicial orders and general court compliance.

Allison Bazinet

Senior Associate Attorney

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Expertise

as a former associate at both an AmLaw Global 100 law firm and a boutique transactional practice:

  • Advised public and private companies in a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and capital raises
  • Advised public companies on securities matters, including Securities and Exchange Act filings and initial public offerings
  • Guided startups and non-profits through formation, IP protection and governance matters
  • Negotiated commercial and employment contracts for clients across multiple industries

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A. Government, Cornell University

Experience

  • KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC: Former corporate associate in the firm’s transactional practice group, specializing in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions and guidance for startup companies.
  • KING & SPALDING, LLP: Former associate in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investment practice group, specializing in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions and securities and capital markets matters.
  • INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY LAW CLINIC: Former participant in Georgetown Law clinic focusing on communications, technology and privacy issues for non-profit clients.

Joyce Freeland

Senior Associate Attorney

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Expertise

as in-house counsel and in large corporate law firms, specializing in business law and technology transactions, I have:

  • Negotiated, drafted, and resolved disputes under a wide range of technology contracts
  • As General Counsel of Omnexus and member of its four-person leadership team, supported global launch of Internet marketplace
  • Worked on immediate response required by cyberattacks involving data breach and ransomware demands
  • Served as coach, mentor, and judge for global pitch competitions leading to significant funding by angel investors

Education

J.D., Emory University School of Law
B.A.,University of Mississippi

Experience

  • KING & SPALDING: Advised Russell Center entrepreneurs; supported Atlanta’s tech and venture capital eco-system; coached Georgia Tech CreateX student/founder
  • FREELAND & FREELAND: Family firm known for business and litigation expertise in historic law office in Oxford, Mississippi
  • OMNEXUS: General Counsel for $70 million technology project co-founded by U.S. and EU plastics divisions of Bayer, BASF, Dow, DuPont, and Ticona-Celanese
  • KILPATRICK TOWNSEND STOCKTON: Senior corporate and finance attorney
  • TROUTMAN PEPPER: Corporate reorganization, restructuring over a $100 million in debt; closed numerous loans to technology startups with equity features
  • GE CAPITAL: Assistant General Counsel for equipment leasing division

Alexis Marie de la Serna

Executive Assistant & Billing Coordinator

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Expertise

with handling Your Ad Attorney’s:

  • Process documentation and process improvement
  • Billing management
  • Marketing management
  • HR management

Education

B.S. Mathematics, University of the Philippines – Cebu

Experience

  • PHILIPPINES AIRASIA, INC.: Former cabin crew and business analyst, primarily analyzing passenger booking and sales trends as well as the keeping track of company’s P&L data
  • ACCENTURE, INC: Former associate software engineer assigned in data and analytics
  • PHIL-LIDAR 2: Former research associate tasked to map and determine potential placement for solar panels, windmills, and hydropower plants in the Philippines’ Western Visayas Region
  • SAVVYSHERPA ASIA, INC: Former researcher trained for analysis of big data and machine learning

Claudette Ann Keithon Entera

Accounting & Billing Coordinator

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Expertise

with handling the firm’s: 

  • Accounting, financial reporting, financial strategy
  • Bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, and tax remittence
  • Billing management
  • Payroll management
  • and more

Education

B.S. Accounting Technology, Phinma Cagayan de Oro College
B.S. Accountancy, Pilgrim Christian College 

Experience

  • EMATA ACCOUNTING AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES: Former bookkeeper in the firm specializing in financials, mainly preparing monthly and annual financial budgets, generating financial reports, delivering profit and loss statements, and financial forecast
  • LCG MARKETING: Former accounting staff providing financial reports, generating financial analysis, and preparing monthly bank reconciliation.
  • PINEAPPLE STAFFING: Currently a virtual assistant serving different clients from 3-way Reconciliation using Quicken and CasePeer, to research and data entry, as well as calling medical providers

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