Tarah Newsome

About Tarah Newsome

Tarah focuses her practice on intellectual property law, including trademarks, copyrights and licensing. She has experience working in the transportation, retail, and beer wine and spirits industries, which includes international trademark work involving over 100 countries. As part of her practice, Tarah has experience with drafting and negotiating software and trademark licensing agreements.Her easy-to-work with style and quiet confidence give her clients peace of mind knowing their projects are in capable hands. Tarah conveys her desire to help businesses grow their brands and protect their creative assets letting clients know their priorities are also hers.Tarah has experience building relationships with major companies and helping manage their intellectual property portfolios. She spent her summer internship at a multinational billion-dollar retail company. While there, she attended branding and marketing meetings and saw firsthand the creative and decision-making process. Her experience helped her understand the inner workings of a multinational billion-dollar company, and more importantly, it taught her how to interact with and understand the importance of properly maintaining a company’s intellectual property portfolio. She now helps manage this retailer’s international trademark portfolio. Additionally, she helps manage the enforcement work for a U.S. affiliate of a top international automaker’s trademark portfolio.Her experience includes performing development work, specifically grant writing, for nonprofits. This experience gives her first-hand knowledge of the inner workings of nonprofits, enabling her to work side by side with nonprofit organizations and better understand their needs. She also helps restructure nonprofits, rebuild websites, and provides advice regarding grant applications and non-profit fund raising initiatives. Her nonprofit work is just part of her civic-minded activities, as she participated in the Ohio Justice & Policy Center (OJPC) Expungement Clinic.As a music industry major, Tarah has a deep understanding of intellectual property concerns that arise in the entertainment industry, specifically in regard to record labels and individual musicians. She has extensive experience in music theory and composition, which gives her a deep understanding of issues regarding music and copyrights and potentially music licensing.

Experience

1. Assistant General Counsel

   Deloitte

   Jul 2022 — Present

Education

• Northern Kentucky University—Salmon P. Chase College of Law

  Doctor of Law - JD, Law

• Eastern Kentucky University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Industry

  2011 — 2015

• Northern Kentucky University—Salmon P. Chase College of Law

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law

  2016 — 2019

Skills

• Editing
• Microsoft Office
• Music Industry
• Research
• Violin Teaching
• Violin
• Music
• Music Education
• Visual Arts
• French
• Social Media
• Event Planning
• Teaching
• Writing