Monthly Luncheon Meeting: Brand Awareness & Standards

Meredith is a patent attorney, assisting a variety of individual entrepreneurs and companies in their efforts to obtain patent, trademark, and copyright protection. Her practice is focused on the variety of consumer goods and fashion items developed and commercialized here regionally and internationally.   In 2015, she drafted the legislation to protect the likeness of individual Arkansas residents from commercialization, which is commonly known as the Broyles Act and is the most recent legislative change to intellectual property law in Arkansas.  Meredith has been named a Rising Star by Mid-South Super Lawyers from 2012-2015 in the field of Intellectual Property and is included in the 2018 and 2019 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in Patent Law.

Meredith is an active volunteer in Northwest Arkansas, also lending her time beyond AAFF to the following committees and organizations:

• Alzheimer’s Association’s Blondes vs. Brunettes Flag Football team as co-captain for NWA Team Brunette
• American Diabetes Association planning committee for the annual Kiss a Pig Gala
• Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Northwest Arkansas Soup Sunday committee
• Arkansas Small Business Technology Development Center, Fayetteville speaker
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Artinfusion council
• Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce Leadership Fayetteville planning committee
• Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit planning committee and as co-chair in 2017
• Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit Women in Technology planning committee chair
• Scott Family Amazeum annual Ungala planning committee
• Single Parent Scholarship Fund of NWA Development Committee and Community Leadership Council