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Brett E. Lewis, Esq. graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where he was a published member of the Brooklyn Law Review, and a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.

Mr. Lewis has over a decade of experience in Internet law, trademarks and copyright law, domain name disputes and consulting, licensing and agreements, and litigation, and has given speeches and published a number of articles in the field of domain name law.

Following law school, Mr. Lewis worked for a year as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge David G. Trager, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Mr. Lewis then took a position with the venerable Wall Street law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman), where he met his law partner, Apryl Hand.  At Winthrop Stimson, Mr. Lewis joined the Intellectual Property and Litigation Groups, where he took on substantial responsibility for litigating Intellectual Property and UDRP and other domain name disputes, as well as general commercial matters.  Mr. Lewis also gained substantial experience in drafting and negotiating various forms of content and software licensing agreements, distribution agreements, advertising agreements, Web site services agreements, privacy policies and various forms of Internet agreements.

In 2002, Mr. Lewis left the firm to take a position as Assistant General Counsel at the domain name registrar, Register.com, Inc.  At Register.com, Mr. Lewis was responsible for managing the company’s often cutting edge litigation, dealing with novel issues related to domain names, as well as formulating and implementing a comprehensive IP protection and UDRP strategy.  As the company expanded into new services, Mr. Lewis drafted new services agreements and revised the company’s existing ones.  Later promoted to Associate General Counsel, Mr. Lewis also reviewed and negotiated various advertising, Internet, outsourcing and technology agreements, all with an emphasis on pragmatism and getting deals done within the time constraints required by the applicable business concerns.

A native of New York State, and a cum laude graduate of Hamilton College , Mr. Lewis is completely bald.  He has been known to hypnotize opposing counsel with his brightly polished, gleaming bald head.

Areas of Practice

• Internet Law
• Domain Name Disputes and Consulting
• Commercial Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Trademark Law
• Copyright Law
• Licensing and Agreements
• Entertainment Law and Litigation

Bar Admissions

• New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

Education

• Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York, 1998
  J. D.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Honors: Moot Court
  Honors: Richardson Merit Scholar
  Law Review: Brooklyn Law Review
• Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1992
  B.A.
  Honors: Cum Laude

Published Works

• Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: Extreme Makeover, 2006
• Secondary Obligors and the Restatement Third of Suretyship and Guaranty: For Love or Money, 63 Brooklyn L. Rev. 861, 1997

Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, What a Tangled Web We Weave, Internet Issues and How U.S. Courts and ICANN are Addressing Them, 2009 Annual NYSBA IP Section Meeting, January 27, 2009
• Speaker, Domain Roundtable Conference, August 13, 2007 – August 15, 2007
• Speaker, “Domain Name Tasting”, Thomson Compumark New York Forum, May 22, 2007
• Panelist, Domain Roundtable Conference, April 19, 2006 - April 21, 2006
• Speaker, Developments in Internet Domain Name Law, New York State Bar Association Internet Law Committee, 2006

Professional Associations and Memberships

• New York City Bar Association
  Lawyer’s Referral Service Member
• New York State Bar Association Committee on Trademark Law
  Member
• Committee on Technology Transfer and Licensing
  Member

Past Employment Positions

• Register.com, Inc, Associate General Counsel, 2004 - 2005
• Register.com, Inc, Assistant General Counsel, 2002 - 2004
• Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP, Associate, Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups, 1999 - 2002
• Hon. David G. Trager, United States District Court, Law Clerk, 1998 - 1999

Selected Articles