ATLANTA | Safeguard Your Creative Moves, Intellectual Property & Trademarks

Join NSBWEP in Atlanta for an exciting networking event with an insightful conversation on "Safeguarding Your Creative Moves with Intellectual Property and Trademark Insights for Event Professionals" on February 26th at Maggiano's Little Italy. Atlanta's own trademark and intellectual property lawyer,, will lead this poignant legal talk tailored for wedding and event professionals. This is a fantastic opportunity to network with peers and gain invaluable legal insights to protect your creative work and grow your business. Don't miss out—register now and invite a friend to join you!

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the basics of intellectual property and trademarks.
2. Learn how to protect your creative assets in the wedding and event industry.
3. Discover common legal pitfalls and how to avoid them.
4. Gain practical tips for leveraging intellectual property to enhance your business.

We look forward to seeing you there!

SEATED DINNER | NETWORKING | CONTRACT LAW DISCUSSION

REGISTRATION:

MEMBERS – $60.00

NON-MEMBERS – $80.00

$10 Late Fee after 5pm, February 19th

All ticket sales are non-refundable and non-transferable to another event.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:

Dayna Thomas, Esq. is a trusted and influential trademark and entrepreneurship attorney (Dayna Thomas Law) in the Atlanta area and nationwide. She focuses her practice on assisting entrepreneurs and entertainers reach their goals, protect their businesses, and build strong personal and professional brands. Named as one of Georgia Trend's Legal Elite, Dayna thrives on helping people make more money and live more fulfilled lives.

Dayna’s work has involved assisting entrepreneurs at every level to start and protect their businesses and brands. Her services include business entity formation, operating agreements and bylaws, investor relations, trademark and brand protection, contract drafting and negotiation, intellectual property, business disputes, and more. In addition, she has negotiated talent deals for television shows on major networks such as FOX, HBO, MTV, VH1, BET, E!, A&E, and WE tv for shows such as Love and Hip Hop, My Super Sweet 16, Love and Marriage: Huntsville, Married at First Flight, WAGS, and MasterChef.

Along the way, Dayna transitioned her firm to focus on trademark law, which she strongly believes is the most important element of a solid legal foundation. She is the founder of a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization called “Black Brands Bureau,” with the goal of teaming up with attorneys nationwide to defend small business owners from what she calls “trademark bullies.”

As one of the nation’s most sought-after brand attorneys, Dayna has helped thousands of business owners establish solid foundations for their new and exciting ventures in entrepreneurship. She is particularly proud to serve as the official trademark attorney for the City of Atlanta – the chosen attorney to provide trademark advice and registration for the some of the most recognized municipal brands across the city and airport. With nearly 1,000 trademark registrations under her belt, Dayna’s thrives on educating the public on the importance of brand protection from the beginning.

Along with providing legal services, Dayna also has an online school called “Virtual Business Counsel,” where she coaches entrepreneurs through the startup process. After reaching much success in her own law firm, she also founded New Lawyer Launch, a course and community in which Dayna trains new lawyers on starting their own business law firm. She is also the author of Entrepreneur’s Guide to Building a Solid Legal Foundation, in which she exposes entrepreneurs to the fundamentals of business law to help prepare their business for wild success. Her book is currently the required text for a course at Howard University as well as for the Digital Entrepreneurship MBA at Strayer University.

In an effort to empower entrepreneurs across the globe, Dayna regularly serves as a speaker for conferences, accelerator programs, podcasts, webinars, radio shows and other events to empower aspiring, new, and veteran entrepreneurs. She has been featured in over 100 publications and events to teach and encourage entrepreneurs worldwide.

Dayna’s passion for educating and inspiring entrepreneurs also manifested in hosting her own talk show on the Atlanta Small Business Network. Her show, Launched & Legal with Dayna Thomas, Esq., aired a new episode every week, discussing the latest trends in business, highlighting the stories of inspiring entrepreneurs, and teaching viewers how to legalize their business.

Dayna’s life motto is “believe and act as if it were impossible to fail,” which is instrumental to her work and value as a legal professional. Nicknamed “The Entrepreneurship Fairy Godmother” by her clients, Dayna is committed to helping entrepreneurs strategize, legalize, and monetize their businesses.

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