Lisa N. Collins

She | Her | Hers

Partner

Atlanta
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Overview

Lisa Collins leads the Atlanta Intellectual Property team, chairs the Firmwide Patent Indemnification team and has over 18 years of experience in intellectual property, handling both IP transactions and litigation. She focuses her practice on the business of intellectual property and protecting her clients' technologies. Lisa regularly advises clients on IP strategy, licensing, privacy, trade secrets and portfolio management, handles numerous technology transactions and has diverted and recovered more than nine figures.

Lisa is also a seasoned litigator with extensive litigation and trial experience. She has tried several complex state and federal jury trials and specialized bench trials; has appeared as first and second chair before federal and state trial courts, administrative courts, and domestic and international arbitration panels; and has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Her litigation background, integrated with her transactional work in intellectual property, allows Lisa to have a deeper understanding of clients’ business needs and concerns and to bring value to their businesses.

Lisa is a thought leader and accelerator in the areas of Inclusion and Diversity. Within the firm, she serves on the Firmwide Diversity Council and chairs the Black Affinity Group. She also co-chairs the Atlanta Office Inclusion and Diversity Committee and serves on the Firmwide Women’s Committee. Within the community, Lisa serves on the Board of Directors and as Vice President for the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) Foundation, Inc. and as the past Program Development Chair and current Symposium Chair for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Alumni Executive Council. Additionally, she is a member of the 2020 Class of Leadership Atlanta. Lisa is very active in the Atlanta community and was the longest serving chair of GABWA’s signature fundraising event, the Glitter Gala. Lisa is also the immediate past President of the Georgetown Club of Metropolitan Atlanta and serves on the University’s and Law School’s Board of Governors and Law Alumni Board, respectively.

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  • Represents telecommunication and cable corporations in the analysis and enforcement of indemnification rights in more than 150 complex patent infringement litigations and pre-litigation cases, resulting in substantial decreases in exposure and the diversion and recovery of more than nine figures for her clients.
  • Led the defense of a global electronics manufacturing company in a nine-figure technology litigation related to power amplifiers and gateways.
  • Assists a multinational technology company with numerous technology transactions including the drafting, review and negotiation of many agreements including but not limited to Master Services Agreements, Master Purchase Agreements, Online Service Terms Addendums, Enterprise Agreements, Enrollment Agreements, Renewals and Offshore Software Consolidation Agreements. The issues include access of third-party software, enterprise cloud management, financial services terms and analysis, ownership of IP, infringement indemnification, data in transit and at rest and protection of confidential information, including sensitive and personal data.
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Experience

  • Represents telecommunication and cable corporations in the analysis and enforcement of indemnification rights in more than 150 complex patent infringement litigations and pre-litigation cases, resulting in substantial decreases in exposure and the diversion and recovery of more than nine figures for her clients.
  • Led the defense of a global electronics manufacturing company in a nine-figure technology litigation related to power amplifiers and gateways.
  • Assists a multinational technology company with numerous technology transactions including the drafting, review and negotiation of many agreements including but not limited to Master Services Agreements, Master Purchase Agreements, Online Service Terms Addendums, Enterprise Agreements, Enrollment Agreements, Renewals and Offshore Software Consolidation Agreements. The issues include access of third-party software, enterprise cloud management, financial services terms and analysis, ownership of IP, infringement indemnification, data in transit and at rest and protection of confidential information, including sensitive and personal data.
  • Assists a leading audit, tax and accounting firm with the drafting, review and negotiation of numerous agreements, including Terms of Subscription Service Agreements, Master Purchase Agreements, Statements of Work, Software as a Service Agreements and Data Protection Addendums, relating to BPO outsourcing or data analytics management.
  • Counsels telecommunication and cable corporations regarding best practices for supplier and technology agreements including issues associated with privacy, intellectual property, indemnification and transparent formulae that maximize post-loss reimbursements for clients.
  • Represents software providers in the licensing or procurement of cloud technology.
  • Represents a waste management company in IP and growth strategy, technology transactions and patent and trademark portfolio management.
  • Working with a corporation as acting general counsel to provide IP strategy, technology transactional support and to secure patent and trademark rights.
  • Represents licensors and licensees in trademark, copyright and software license agreements.
  • Assisted a leading media and telecommunications company with a Commercial Services Agreement related to Telehealth. The issues included access of third-party software, infringement indemnification, ownership of IP and protection of confidential information, including protected health information, sensitive and personal data.
  • Successfully defended multiple clients against indemnification assertions.
  • Defended numerous franchisees against trademark infringement and misappropriation claims.
  • Defended and obtained a federal jury verdict for a turbine manufacturer in a bet-the-company action.
  • Defended a national fraternity and a Georgia institution of higher learning against multiple hazing allegations. Obtained summary judgment and dismissal of all claims and affirmance on appeal.

Recognitions and Memberships

Recognitions

  • Chambers USA: Intellectual Property in Georgia (2022 to 2023)
    • Band 4 (2022 to 2023)
  • American Lawyer Industry Awards: Finalist, Best Mentor, Law Firm (2021)
  • Law.com: Women, Influence, Power in Law: Innovative Leadership, Law Firm (2021)
  • IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Practitioners
    • Georgia: Recommended for Patent Prosecution (2021)
  • Leadership Atlanta (2020)
  • Atlanta Business Chronicle 
    • Diversity and Inclusion Awards: Board Champion (2020)
    • 40 Under Forty Award (2018)
  • Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards USA: Highly Commended, Outstanding Ally (2019)
  • National Bar Association
    • Diversity in Tech and IP Award (2019)
    • Excellence in Leadership Award (2018)
    • 40 Under 40 Award (2018)
  • Daily Report "On the Rise" 40 Under 40 Award (2015)
  • Georgia Super Lawyers "Rising Star" (2012 to 2014, 2016 to 2019)
  • Daily Report Women Lawyer Edition (2009)

Memberships

  • The Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys
    • Executive and Leadership Board (2017 to 2018)
    • Glitter Gala Chair (2016 to 2018)
    • Inaugural Judicial and Public Office Academy Committee
  • The Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Foundation, Inc.
    • Vice President and Board of Directors 
    • Director (2019 to 2021)
    • Sister2Sister Mentoring Program®: Executive Director (2006)
  • Georgetown Club of Metropolitan Atlanta
    • Board of Directors
    • President (July 2019 to June 2021)
    • Writing Committee Member
  • Georgetown University
    • Admissions Council: Alumni Interviewer
    • Board of Governors: Executive Committee Member and Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
    • Law Alumni Board
  • American Bar Association: Intellectual Property Law Committee
  • Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School
    • Volunteer
    • Board of Visitors
    • Board of Trustees (2018 to 2021)
  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • ChIPs, Atlanta Chapter
  • National Bar Association

Community

  • Atlanta Community Food Bank: Packaging and Collection Volunteer
  • Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
  • St. Jude, Southern Evening of Hope: Board of Directors (2017)

Pro Bono

  • Through work with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, assisted tenants in recovering damages to personal property from vermin infestation; drafted wills for elderly and disabled through the Wills on Wheels Initiative.
  • Working with Atlanta veterans to assist them with benefit claims.
  • Represent the King Center | Center for Nonviolence Social Change in various trademark matters.
  • Represent indigent artists and writers with publishing, film production and digital rights agreements.

Prior Positions

  • The White House
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies: Preventive Diplomacy Scholar

Admissions

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
  • Georgia

Education

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2004
  • B.S.F.S., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 2001