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 has been featured on tv, radio, and in several publications including: Fox News, 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.
SHANNON BOND 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, and drafts office action responses as well as briefs for opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Shannon also provides Saper Law clients with general business counseling, forming and dissolving business entities, drafting agreements, including licensing, sales representative, employment, asset purchase, distribution, cross purchase, terms of use, venue, and host agreements.
Shannon received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where she was a member of Phi Delta Phi honor society. She received her B.S. in Sociology, magna cum laude and with honors, from Andrews University, where she was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society and listed for two consecutive years in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Prior to joining the firm, Shannon’s legal experience included political asylum, community outreach, and civil litigation work at Bluhm Legal Clinic and general litigation work at the Illinois Attorney General’s Office in the General Law Bureau.
Shannon volunteers for Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, Park Forest Economic Development Advisory Group, Park Forest Mediation Task Forest, Park Forest Community Ambassadors, and the Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Council, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago’s Women in IP Committee, the American Bar Association’s Touch 10,000 Program, and serves as the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division Individual Rights and Responsibility Vice-Chair. She has also been a speaker and author on numerous occasions regarding matters related to trademarks, copyrights, and business law. Shannon is licensed to practice in Illinois.
WILLIAM KRAMER received his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in May of 2005. While at DePaul, he was selected to be a Sullivan Fellow for the International Human Rights Law Institute, an internationally recognized institute that promotes contemporary human rights and rule of law research, training and advocacy. Mr. Kramer received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Dayton in 2002. His legal experience includes civil litigation, intellectual property, business, and entertainment law. William is licensed to practice in Illinois and is an active member of the Chicago and American Bar Association.
STEWART KUHLO received his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in May of 2009, and B.S. in Marketing, cum laude, from the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Business in 2002. While at John Marshall, Stewart was a member of the Entertainment and Media Law Society and provided pro bono legal assistance to the Cook County Public Defender’s Office. His legal experience includes IP law, media law, appellate advocacy, indigent defense, personal bankruptcy, and privacy rights. Stewart is also an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and a volunteer for Lawyers for the Creative Arts. He is licensed to practice in Illinois.
ADAM URBANCYZK 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.
JONATHAN POPE received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois in 2003 and expects to graduate from the John Marshall Law School in May of 2010. He is concentrating on intellectual property law and is on the executive board of the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law. Jonathan is working on an article regarding declaratory judgment jurisdiction in patent disputes and will be publishing in the Fall of 2009. His legal experience includes insurance coverage and litigation with Gordon & Rees, L.L.P. and trademarks, copyrights, and patents with The Law Office of Theresa V. Johnson. Additionally, Jonathan has externed for the Honorable Richard J. Elrod in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
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