Autumn Witt Boyd
Autumn Witt Boyd, founder of The Law Office of Autumn Witt Boyd, has been selected to the 2018 Tennessee Super Lawyers list as a Top-Rated Intellectual Property Lawyer, Rising Star.
Ms. Boyd also hosts the Legal Road Map podcast, which teaches business owners about the legal issues they may face as they grow a profitable and sustainable business. Season Two of the podcast launched this fall, featuring case study interviews with entrepreneurs, talking about how they’ve built their businesses, and the legal lessons they’ve learned along the way. The Legal Road Map podcast can be heard through iTunes or the Apple Podcast App, Google Play, and Stitcher, and Pocketcasts, and show notes for each episode can be found at http://awbfirm.com/podcast/.
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Ms. Boyd has been helping creative entrepreneurs in Chattanooga and across the United States protect their rights with copyright, trademark, and business guidance for more than 13 years. The Law Office of Autumn Witt Boyd is a full-service law firm for creative business owners.
Prior to opening her own practice, she served as an associate with the law firm Harmon & Seidman LLC, where she represented photographers, visual artists, and stock photography agencies in copyright lawsuits, including a successful jury trial. She also worked for two years at local firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., helping businesses and individuals who had been sued over business deals or products, or who needed to file lawsuits to protect their own patents or copyrights. Ms. Boyd began her legal career as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Curtis L. Collier with the Eastern District of Tennessee, the federal trial court in Chattanooga.
Ms. Boyd obtained her law degree at Vanderbilt University Law School, where she graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif, and her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and English with High Honors at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Ms. Boyd hosts the Legal Road Map podcast, which teaches business owners about the legal issues they may face as they grow a profitable and sustainable business. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property section of the Tennessee Bar Association and is active in the Brock Cooper American Inn of Court, the Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts, and Southeast Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women. She also is active in the local nonprofit community, serving as the Past President of Chattanooga Friends, a service organization for young professionals.
Ms. Boyd may be contacted by e-mail at info@awbfirm.com; by telephone at 756-6013, or found online at www.awbfirm.com.