Description:
DiAngelo Law is an established, growing virtual law firm specializing in trademarks, intellectual property, and business law. For more than 11 years, we've helped entrepreneurs and businesses protect their brands, navigate legal challenges, and build valuable business assets.We believe a great legal partner does more than protect a client's interests. They help businesses build credibility, strengthen their reputation, create opportunities, and establish foundations for long-term success.
We're entering an exciting new stage of growth, expanding our capabilities, deepening client relationships, and building a firm known for exceptional legal strategy, genuine accessibility, and forward-thinking service.
We're seeking an experienced Trademark, IP & Business Attorney who enjoys practicing law, building trusted client relationships, and taking meaningful ownership of their work while developing their professional reputation, expanding their practice, and contributing to something bigger than themselves.
This is an opportunity to build a thriving practice within an established firm, benefiting from our existing client base, marketing, technology, and team support while developing your own relationships, influence, and earning potential.
What You'll Love About Working With Us
- Autonomy & Ownership: Manage your matters, exercise professional judgment, and take responsibility for delivering exceptional results.
- Professional Growth & Recognition: Expand your expertise, strengthen your credibility, and build your professional reputation with the guidance, resources, and support of an established firm.
- Practice Development & Earning Potential: Build your professional network, generate new business, and grow your practice within DiAngelo Law, with the resources and support of an established firm. Your contributions to revenue growth can directly influence your compensation.
- Meaningful Impact: Play an active role in shaping client relationships, improving the firm, and contributing to its continued success.
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote firm that values efficiency, personal well-being, and a healthy balance between professional success and life outside of work.
- Strategic, Interesting Work: Help ambitious founders and established companies protect, strengthen, and leverage their brands and other business assets.
- Collaborative Culture: Work alongside a supportive team that values transparency, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Modern Technology: Leverage efficient systems and emerging technology to reduce administrative work and focus on higher-value legal services.
- Long-Term Opportunity: Grow alongside a firm with ambitious expansion plans and opportunities for increasing responsibility and leadership.
Become a trusted legal advisor who helps businesses protect their most valuable assets, strengthen their credibility, and unlock opportunities for growth.
Build a reputation for exceptional legal counsel, cultivate lasting client relationships, and help grow a thriving legal practice within DiAngelo Law. Through your expertise, initiative, and commitment to excellence, you'll contribute to the firm's continued success while advancing your own professional reputation, influence, and earning potential.
What You'll Do:
Legal Practice & Strategic Client Representation
- Independently manage trademark matters, including clearance searches, legal opinions, applications, USPTO Office Action responses, renewals, and portfolio management.
- Advise clients on comprehensive trademark and brand protection strategies, including domestic and international considerations.
- Handle trademark enforcement matters, including cease and desist communications, infringement analysis, online marketplace and social media takedowns, and dispute resolution.
- Manage or meaningfully contribute to TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings, including pleadings, discovery, motions, and settlement negotiations.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a wide variety of business and commercial agreements, including service agreements, licensing agreements, independent contractor agreements, NDAs, and other business transactions.
- Provide strategic counsel on intellectual property ownership, licensing, commercialization, and other opportunities to leverage intangible business assets.
- Advise business owners on legal risks, contractual relationships, disputes, and ongoing operational or growth-related legal needs.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their broader business objectives and deliver practical, commercially sound recommendations.
- Independently manage client communications, deadlines, legal matters, and work product while collaborating with our legal support team.
Business development is an integral part of this position. We're looking for an attorney who is motivated to build a strong professional reputation, cultivate referral relationships, and actively originate new business while benefiting from the resources and support of an established firm.
- Independently develop new business through networking, professional relationships, referrals, thought leadership, and other strategic initiatives.
- Proactively generate new client engagements and grow your practice within DiAngelo Law, leveraging the firm's established reputation, marketing, resources, and operational support.
- Conduct consultations with prospective clients, including firm-generated leads, and convert qualified opportunities into engagements.
- Cultivate trusted, long-term client relationships and identify opportunities to provide ongoing legal guidance as clients' businesses evolve.
- Contribute to the firm's visibility and reputation through professional networking, educational content, speaking engagements, and other business development activities.
- Take an active role in growing your practice and revenue, with performance-based compensation opportunities that reward business generation and provide meaningful influence over your earning potential.
- Take ownership of individual performance, client outcomes, and contributions to firm growth.
- Identify opportunities to improve the client experience, operational efficiency, and profitability.
- Collaborate with firm leadership on strategic initiatives, practice development, and expansion opportunities.
- Embrace technology, AI, and innovative approaches to delivering sophisticated legal services more effectively.
- Contribute to a positive, accountable, and growth-oriented team culture.
- Help strengthen the firm's long-term reputation through consistently excellent legal work, trusted relationships, and professional integrity.
- Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. Florida licensure preferred.
- At least 2 years of substantive U.S. trademark law experience, with 5+ years preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage federal trademark matters, including clearance, opinions, applications, and substantive Office Action responses.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating business contracts.
- Strong legal research, writing, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent client communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to independently manage multiple matters and deadlines.
- Demonstrated business development initiative and willingness to be accountable for originating new client engagements, in addition to managing firm-generated business.
- TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings.
- Trademark portfolio management and ongoing IP strategy.
- Online infringement enforcement, marketplace takedowns, and domain name disputes.
- IP licensing, assignments, acquisitions, and commercialization.
- Copyright registration and enforcement.
- Business formations, mergers, acquisitions, and general corporate matters.
- Commercial litigation and pre-litigation dispute resolution.
- Professional networking, client origination, and business development.
- Leadership, mentoring, and practice development.
