Attorney
Claire Donovan
Counsel
Biography
Claire Donovan is Counsel at Paterson Legal Firm. She advises employers, executives, and growing businesses on workplace relationships and on the names, content, and agreements that protect a business’s work.
Her employment work includes contracts, policies, and disagreements about how those terms were applied. Her intellectual property work includes questions of ownership, use, and how a brand or piece of work should be described in an agreement.
She focuses on clear drafting and on telling clients, in plain language, what a restriction or a permission will mean in practice.
Her employment work includes contracts, policies, and disagreements about how those terms were applied. Her intellectual property work includes questions of ownership, use, and how a brand or piece of work should be described in an agreement.
She focuses on clear drafting and on telling clients, in plain language, what a restriction or a permission will mean in practice.
Professional experience
- Employment agreements and workplace policies
- Advice on ending an employment relationship
- Trademark and copyright questions for businesses
- Agreements that allocate ownership of creative work