Profile
Lauri S. Thompson focuses her practice on intellectual property, including working with gaming resort companies, software companies, and entertainment companies to protect and enhance their key brands and corporate images through strategic management of their worldwide trademark and copyright portfolios. She works to help increase the visibility and value of their names and images, through trademark, copyright, and domain name registration, and Internet monitoring and enforcement. Additionally, she works with interior design groups for hotels and casino resorts on third-party vendor agreements, purchase orders, and strategies to control intellectual property rights.
The entertainment aspect of her practice includes handling issues related to live show production and audio visual works. She counsels clients in all aspects of their advertising and entertainment contracts. She helps license music and other content, as well as develops procedures for ownership of original content. She oversees the clearance, procurement and enforcement of intellectual property rights throughout the world, including the protection and use of intellectual property on and off the Internet.
Lauri counsels clients to avoid disputes by helping them review materials for copyright, trademark and publicity rights issues. She works with various production companies, recording studios, advertising agencies, media companies and interior design groups, advising them in the clearance of materials for use in interior design, film, television, advertising and Internet marketing. She is experienced settling disputes over IP and entertainment issues in an effort to avoid costly litigation and uncertain outcomes, when possible.
Lauri’s professional involvement extends outside of her practice, where she serves as the incoming chair for the Trademark panels for both the ABA Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries and the Section on Intellectual Property Law. In addition, she has taught entertainment and fine art law for 20 years at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Concentrations
- Trademarks
- Copyrights
- Rights of publicity
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Law Firm of the Year" in Trademark Law, 2020, 2022
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 2020 - 2025
- Trademark Law, 2020 - 2025
- Entertainment Law - Music, 2020-2025
- Trade Secrets Law, 2023-2025
- Listed, Who's Who Legal
- Global Elite Thought Leaders - IP, 2024
- Global Leaders – IP : Trademarks, 2022
- Team Member, a Law360 “Hospitality Practice Group of the Year,” 2021
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Mountain States Super Lawyers, 2014-2019
- Listed, Who's Who Legal, Trademarks, 2014
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Entertainment Law - Music, 2011-2012
- Recognized, World Trademark Review, 2011, 2022-2024
- "WTR 1000," 2021-2024
- "World Leading Trademark Individual for Contentious Work," 2011
- Recipient, Trademark Insider, Trademark Filer, 2004, 2006, and 2007
- Rated, AV Preeminent® 4.6 out of 5.0
- Adjunct Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Entertainment Law
- Member, Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada, 2023-Present
- Board Member, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Board of Directors
- Board Member, Variety The Children's Charity of Southern Nevada, Board of Directors
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries
- Incoming Chair, Trademark Panel
- Member, Section of Intellectual Property Law
- Incoming Chair, Trademark Panel
- Member, Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries
- Member, Clark County Bar Association
- Member, Nevada Intellectual Property Law Society
- Member, State Bar of Nevada
- Past President, American Association of University Women, Las Vegas Branch
Credentials
- J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, 1998
- B.F.A., Fine Arts, University of Utah, 1979
- Nevada
- California
- District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada