Jessica Eaves Mathews, founder of Leverage Legal Group®, is passionate about providing exceptional, flat-fee trademark registration services to clients in all 50 states. She has been doing trademark legal work for clients since 2008, and has been a business lawyer for over 28 years. She is licensed in Washington and New Mexico, and is admitted in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office for her trademark work for clients nationwide and around the world.
Jessica represents businesses and business owners, from solopreneurs, to mom and pop stores & restaurants, to professional service-providers, to Fortune 500 companies and some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, including serving as the head of litigation and compliance for Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. She has represented Coca-Cola, Dreamworks, DirectTV and others.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
AVVO rating of “Excellent”
Martindale Hubbell rating of 5 stars
Albuquerque Business First Woman of Influence 2015
Albuquerque Business First, 2013 Top CEO, Business Services
#1 Best-Selling Author, 2013, Wonder Women: How Western Women Will Save the World
2013 StartupNation's Leading Moms in Business
Silver Stevie® Award for Women in Business, Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2012
2012 Gold Stevie® Award, New Company of the Year
2012 Bronze Stevie® Award, Best New Company
2012 Bronze Stevie® Award, Company of the Year, Diversified Services
2012 Bronze Stevie® Award, Best New Product or Service
- Trademarks
- Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
- Intellectual Property
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- New Mexico
- State Bar of New Mexico
- ID Number: 145432
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- Washington
- Washington State Bar Association
- ID Number: 25379
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- Founder and CEO
- Leverage Legal Group (previously Leverage a Lawyer and Eaves Mathews Law)
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- Litigation and Compliance Counsel
- Vulcan Inc.
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- Adjunct Professor - Art and Cultural Law
- Seattle University School of Law
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- Vice President and General Counsel
- Mathews Contracting LLC
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- Founder and Principal
- Eaves Mathews Law
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- Associate Professor - Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy
- Seattle University School of Law
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- Senior Associate
- Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo
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- Commercial and business litigation; intellectual property litigation
- Associate
- Cohen Milstein Hausfeld and Toll
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- Associate
- Williams Kastner & Gibbs
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- Seattle University School of Law
- J.D. (1995) | Law
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude and Editor in Chief of the Seattle University Law Review
- Activities: Editor in Chief of the Seattle University Law Review Moot Court Board member
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- University of New Mexico
- B.A. (1990) | English Major, Dance Minor
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- Honors: Cum laude
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- 2015 Women of Influence Honoree
- Albuquerque Business First
- 2013 Top CEO - winner
- Albuquerque Business First
- Gold Stevie® Award in the New Company of the Year
- Stevie Awards for Women in Business
- Silver Stevie® Award in a Female Entrepreneur of the Year
- Stevie Awards for Women in Business
- The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, and the organizations they run. All individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The 2012 awards received 1200 nominated entries from 17 nations and territories.
- Bronze Stevie® - Best New Product or Service - Business-to-Business Services
- The Stevies - American Business Awards
- 2012 Stevie® Awards in these categories, including the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, were presented at The American Business Awards' new product & tech awards gala in San Francisco on September 17.
- New Mexico State Bar Association
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- Ellevate Network (formerly 85 Broads)
- Executive Council Member
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- National Association Of Women Business Owners
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- eWomen Network
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- 85 Broads
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- Association of Corporate Counsel
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- Washington State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
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- Washington State Bar Association, Business Law Section
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- Washington State Bar Association # 25379
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- How to Have a Happy Law Practice
- "Subpoenas"
- Washington Civil Procedure Deskbook (2nd ed. 2002), Washington State Bar Association
- Co-Author: Washington Civil Procedure Deskbook, "Consolidation and Separate Trials"
- Washington Civil Procedure Deskbook, Washington State Bar Association
- "A Step in the Right Direction: Washington Passes the Limited Liability Company Act"
- 18 Seattle U.L.Rev. 197 (1994)
- Are You Risking Your Entire Business? The 5 Simple Steps to Avoid a Branding Disaster, numerous, around the United States
- As a business owner and entrepreneur, you know there are things you have to do to protect your brand legally, but if you are like most of us, you have been avoiding that conversation either because it’s too scary or seems too complicated or expensive to tackle. You may not even know where to start. What you may not realize, however, is that the quality of your brand will directly affect how happy and successful you can be as a business owner. And avoiding these steps can spell disaster.
- Wonder Woman: How Western Women Will Save the World, https://www.jlabq.org/?nd=jlau_jessica_mathews
- Albuquerque Junior League
- 4 Simple Steps For Building a Foundation for Business Brilliance, numerous
- Make it a Brilliant Beginning (entity choice, how to prevent losing that entity status, handling business funds, etc.) Protect Your Brilliant Ideas (copyright and trademark basics, NDAs, etc.) Setting up A Brilliant Website (what to have on your website, including Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Earnings Disclaimers; following FTC rules on affiliates/testimonials, etc.) Working Brilliantly with Others (how to use contracts to protect yourself, working with independent contractors)
- The 7 Hidden Legal Disasters in Your Business and Easy Solutions, numerous, around the United States
- Starting up right: Choosing an entity and setting it up; Claiming Your Name: Securing a state, federal or international trademark; How to protect your brilliant ideas; Website Disclaimers; Email 101: Know the federal rules and follow them to the letter! Relationship Insurance.
- Your Most Valuable Asset and the 5 Absolutely Critical Steps for a Brand Worth Millions, numerous, around the United States
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- Leverage Legal Group
