Attorney

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Ms. Dozier regularly advises senior executives, artists, writers, engineers, marketers, researchers, and top entrepreneurs on successful business, strategic, intellectual property, and technology-related contracts. Darlene's legal counsel has helped hundreds of clients establish the policies, processes, protections, and agreements to expand nationally, internationally, and to go public. 

Darlene gained her practical knowledge of technology and business by serving as in-house counsel managing the day-to-day legal issues within four venture-backed software and technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Darlene continues to help client companies and entrepreneurs successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing landscape. She brings years of legal experience working with startups, emerging companies, and Fortune 500 companies, helping oversee and support business development and strategic alliances, and delivering successful, practical legal advice from a real-world business perspective.  

As a former literary agent with a New  York and Napa Valley-based agency, Darlene passionately supports national and international award-winning writers, journalists, chefs, professors, scientists, and other licensors and licensees, addressing new and old media matters, including publishing, e-learning, video classes, and international merchandising agreements. 

With a broad and deep background, Darlene brings a practical understanding of the interplay between law, the Internet, business, entertainment, media, and technology, providing the advice that allows her clients to quickly identify and address the changing legal and business issues created by new technologies and platforms. Rest assured that your entrepreneurial values and strategic visions are understood and protected, so that you can focus on what you do best…building your company, and your dreams. 

• Federal and International Law Practice: (Technology, Internet, Media, Privacy,  Licensing, Trademarks, and Copyrights)
• State Law Practice: Active License in Virginia; previously included California and Colorado
• J.D. University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
• International Studies Include: University of Bordeaux, FR; Cambridge University, UK; University of Salzburg, AT, (with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy); University of Athens, GR; University of Geneva, CH
• B.S. Economics and Industrial Relations, University of North Carolina
• Professional Culinary Training, Culinary Institute of America, Greystone, Napa Valley
• Former Member, Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR)