Michael A. Long, Esq.

Experience

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  Genex

  Feb 1998 - Feb 2000

  Director of Quality; Reporting Architect

  Served entertainment, business, and high-tech clients. Directed quality checking processes and built a custom intranet tool for bug tracking to enhance quality results prior to release. Created and modified custom web tracking and loyalty reports for high profile clients.

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  Vizional Technologies

  Mar 2000 - Mar 2002

  Product Manager; Software Engineer

  Wrote technical product specifications and guided development of complex multi-system reporting software. Worked on large supply chain information system projects including Maersk and others. Traveled to client sites in Europe and the U.S. Created a high-impact product demo from scratch.

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  AEXIUS, LLC

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Software Developer

  Built a web platform and generated reporting tools for production visibility. Wrote software intergrations to third party manufacturing vision systems for automated mass manufacturing.

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  CA Lawyers for the Arts

  Feb 2004 - Feb 2006

  Law Clerk - Entertainment Law

  I analyzed entertainment law disputes, prepared legal memos, and interviewed clients. I worked with the Arts Arbitration & Mediation Services (AAMS) division to analyze mediation cases and coordinated with both sides prior to mediation. With the intake group, I served as the first line intake representative for hundreds of entertainment law cases directly with artists, writers, creatives, producers, inventors, painters, graphic artists, toymakers, and business executives.

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  Intellectual Property Unit, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office (Rocky Delgadillo's term)

  Dec 2004 - Mar 2006

  Intellectual Property Law Clerk

  Prepared licensing agreements for L.A. City-owned film footage and trademarks. Prepared C&D letters to enforce LA City's IP. Created a standardized form for IP screening across all City Departments. Coordinated internal discovery for In Re: Microsoft Antitrust Litigation. Prepared legal memos re: copyright and potential high impact tort exposure. Policed Los Angeles' various IP, including LAFD and LAPD trademarks re: counterfeit goods to protect the public interest and public safety.

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  United States District Court

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Judicial Law Clerk

  Served as judicial law clerk to The Honorable Stephen J. Hillman. Judge Hillman gave me a large workload - one case with 12 boxes on appeal from the California Supreme Court via exhaustion doctrine - and commented that my writing is "very clear."

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  AEXIUS, LLC

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2013

  Developer / Intellectual Property Administrator

  Protected and developed creative works. Negotiated IP deals on collaborative projects.

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  Long & Associates

  Aug 2009 - now

  Attorney At Law

  Serve highly sophisticated clients in complex business cases involving intellectual properties, real property, and/or high value assets.

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  CA Lawyers for the Arts

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2018

  Panel Attorney - Entertainment & IP Law

  Panel attorney and pro bono attorney for the arts. As a Panel Attorney, I analyzed numerous intellectual property disputes and helped creative artists and executives in film, television, music, and visual arts - serving artists, writers, creatives, producers, inventors, painters, graphic artists, toymakers, and business executives.

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  The Soni Law Firm

  Jul 2013 - Nov 2021

  Attorney At Law

  Primary handling or lead attorney in high-stakes litigation including appeals, litigations, and trials.