| Biography | Brett R. Harris, a shareholder with Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A., has broad-based general corporate practice consisting of both transactional matters and day-to-day client counseling on everyday business matters. She has extensive transactional experience in stock and asset acquisitions representing both buyers and sellers. She has many years of experience in document drafting and negotiation, regulatory compliance matters and policy development for a full range of clients, including publicly-traded companies, closely-held businesses, health care practices, charitable organizations, governmental entities and individual business executives. Ms. Harris has a particular focus on counseling non-profit organizations including entity formation, establishing and maintaining tax exempt status and complying with fundraising regulations. She counsels Boards on policy matters, mission statement development and strategic planning. In addition, she advises clients on structuring and operating family foundations, including grantmaking due diligence and administration of grant agreements. Her intellectual property practice consists of trademark screening, trademark and copyright registrations, IP licensing matters, trade secret protections, issuing and responding to cease and desist letters and interfacing with the firm's commercial litigation team on infringement matters. Ms. Harris has developed a practice with an emphasis on technology issues. She represents software developers, online businesses, consulting firms and outsourcing companies. Ms. Harris also advises general business clients, healthcare providers and non-profit organizations in addressing their technology concerns, including licensing of computer systems, e-discovery matters, development of online policies and website disclaimers, e-commerce, domain name management and establishment of employee e mail and Internet usage policies. Her experience includes projects involving emerging technologies in the transportation industry relating to electronic toll collection and in construction finance relating to solar development. While in law school, Ms. Harris served as the executive editor of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change. Currently, she is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), Middlesex County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She is Chair of the NJSBA's Internet and Computer Law Committee and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the NJSBA's Business Law Section since 2001, presently serving as Vice Chair-Communications. She is a trustee of the NJSBA Women in the Profession Section and an active member of the NJSBA Intellectual Property Section. She lectures regularly on the subjects of computer law, Internet issues and transactional matters for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and other professional organizations. Ms. Harris was a Special Editor for New Jersey Lawyer (Magazine) Nonprofit Law issue in April 2010 and Internet Law issue in December 2008. She was a Contributor to the DESK REFERENCE MANUAL FOR NONPROFIT & SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS published in January of 2010 and a Contributing Writer for the American Health Lawyers Association Health INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE GUIDE, SECOND EDITION published in May of 2003. Her published articles include "Internet Update: Milestone Changes to the Domain Name System Underway," published in New Jersey Lawyer (Magazine) Internet Law issue, "Intellectual Property and Technology Audit Checklists," which appeared in New Jersey Lawyer on May 14, 2007, "Intellectual Property: How to Identify It and Protect It," published in the February 2002 issue of Professional Insurance Agents, and "Counseling Clients over the Internet," which appeared in the August 2001 issue of The Computer & Internet Lawyer. She co-authored "Trademark Infringement on the Internet, Identifying and Pursuing Infringers, and the Pros and Cons of Proxy Domain Name Registration," published in the June 2009 Intellectual Property Law issue of New Jersey Lawyer (Magazine), "What Every Matrimonial Attorney Should Know About Businesses and Their Structure," published in the June 2005 issue of New Jersey Family Lawyer, "Clearing the Way for Marks," for the Intellectual Property supplement of New Jersey Law Journal, July 21, 2003, and "Financing the Acquisition," which appeared in the December 2002 Special Corporate Practice Issue of New Jersey Lawyer (Magazine). Ms. Harris was selected as one of 50 attorneys in the State featured in the "Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession" supplement of New Jersey Law Journal in August of 2005 and was recognized in August of 2002 in New Jersey Law Journal's "Forty under Forty". She has received an "AV" Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating and has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in specialties of Intellectual Property Law (2007-2011) and Corporate Law (2008-2011). She was also selected for inclusion as a Super Lawyer in the New Jersey Law Monthly, New Jersey Super Lawyers Editions in the areas of Business/Corporate (2007-2011), Intellectual Property (2007-2011), Information Technology (2008-2009) and Nonprofit (2010-2011) and as a New Jersey Rising Star in the areas of Business/Corporate and Intellectual Property in 2006. She is a member of the Medical and Professional Advisory Council of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a public foundation dedicated to fostering humanism in medicine, and serves as the Legal Advisor Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Temple Emanu-El of Westfield "I Have a Dream"? Foundation, Inc. Areas of Emphasis: General Corporate Counseling, Nonprofit & Charitable Organizations, Intellectual Property Protections, Technology Contracting and Software Licensing, Healthcare Information Technology, Employment and Consulting Agreements, Shareholder Relationships and Limited Liability Company Operating Agreements, Mergers and Acquisitions, Restrictive Covenants and Confidentiality Agreements Lawyer Publications: · Desk Reference Manual for Nonprofit and Social Service Organizations (2010) · Piercing the Registrant's Veil · Clearing the Way for Marks: Due Diligence Searches Are Critical In Advising Clients On The Selection And Prosecution Of Trademarks · Internet Update - Milestone Changes to the Domain Name System Underway · Attestation Process Now Open for Federal Incentive Funds |