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Liza Vertinsky

Assistant Professor of Law

Liza Vertinsky, an accomplished intellectual property lawyer, joined the Emory Law faculty in the fall of 2007 as an Assistant Professor, teaching on the topic of intellectual property licensing.

Vertinsky comes to Emory from the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield and Sacks, where she worked as a senior associate and then in an of-counsel role in the firm's Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Group, specializing in intellectual property licensing. Her areas of expertise include intellectual property, technology transfer, licensing, law and economics, and entrepreneurship. Vertinsky has particular experience in assisting entrepreneurs and emerging companies with strategic issues involving the development, acquisition and leveraging of intellectual property. Prior to Wolf Greenfield, Vertinsky worked as an associate for the general practice law firm Hill & Barlow in the areas of corporate and intellectual property law.

Vertinsky clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus, first for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida, and then for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Her publications include a book on the economic organization of street gangs, the subject of her Ph.D. research.

Assistant Professor of Law. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1997; M.A., Economics, University of British Columbia, 1992; Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1997.