Attorneys
Principal
DALIAH SAPER is a member of the Illinois Bar and both the General Bar and Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has handled high profile cases and is regularly featured on national tv, radio, and in several publications including: Fox News, ABC News, The Chicago Tribune, National Jurist Magazine, Chicago Lawyer Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Public Radio WBEZ 91.5, P2Pnet.net, StyleExpose.com, and SBTV.com. She has repeatedly received the honor of being named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine, is recognized as a leading Media and Entertainment lawyer by Chambers and Partners, and was recently nominated for the prestigious ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award. In addition to conducting Seminars at Saper Law on a monthly basis, Daliah is a frequent lecturer, panelist, and instructor for organizations around the city and the country. (For Daliah’s latest speaking engagements, please click on News.) She is on the faculty of PLI, Practicing Law Institute, and has been selected by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to be a member of Harvard’s new Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). Daliah is also an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, teaching a Sports and Entertainment law course.
Daliah received her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she was a staff member on the Journal of Law Technology and Policy and served as President of the Intellectual Property Law Society. Her work experience includes positions at Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione, a large intellectual property law firm; Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a non-profit organization assisting artists; and the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization. She has also worked at Playboy Enterprises, Inc., assisting with the maintenance and enforcement of Playboy’s global trademark portfolio.
Prior to starting her own firm, Daliah gained experience as a commercial litigator and negotiated settlement agreements on behalf of individuals sued by the Recording Industry Association of America. She also served as Vice President and in-house counsel of diLuce Productions, Inc., a Chicago based public relations and marketing consulting firm specializing in event production.
Daliah is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Fashion Foundation, the Technology Executives Club, the Decalogue Society, the Standard Club, and IFP (Independent Feature Project). Through her firm, she supports and sponsors many technology and arts related organizations such as Tech Cocktail and the Midwest Independent Film Festival. She also volunteers for Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Kartemquin Films, Chicago Filmmakers, Women in Film, and Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation.
Finally, Daliah has extensive overseas experience, having studied at Fudan University in Shanghai and the City University School of Business in London. She speaks Hebrew and Farsi.
Associates
MEGAN ASKEW currently serves as Saper Law’s IP Portfolio Manager. In that capacity, she oversees all trademark and copyright applications filed through the firm. She regularly performs trademark availability searches, drafts opinion letters, corresponds with trademark examiners and copyright office clerks, drafts office action responses, as well as handles opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Megan received her J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, in Washington, D.C., where she received the Dean’s Award for Dedicated Service. She was also president of the Federalist Society and a member of the Intellectual Property Law Student Association and Women’s Law Caucus.  She received her B.A. in English, cum laude, from Valparaiso University, where she was a member of the Christ College honors program and took part in the International Study Center in Cambridge, England. Prior to joining the firm, Megan’s legal experience included television royalties and business contracts at Intermediary Copyright Royalty Services, and domestic and international music royalties and legislative analysis at the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies. Megan is currently earning an LLM degree in Intellectual Property from The John Marshall Law School.
ADAM URBANCZYK a registered patent attorney, received his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School where he received an IP Certificate and was an executive board member of its Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Society. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and, prior to entering law school, was an accomplished Systems Engineer for General Dynamics Land Systems. Adam’s legal experience is comprised of commercial, intellectual property, media, professional licensing, and health-industry related transactional and litigation efforts.  He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He has passed the U.S. Patent Registration Exam, and is admitted to the bars of the State of Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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