2026 Spring Meeting Planning Committee

Nancy Mertzel
Officer-in Charge
Mertzel Law, PLLC
New York, NY

Brad Chin
Board Liaison
Duane Morris
Washington, DC

Ury Fischer
Chair
Lott & Fischer
Coral Gables, FL

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Felicia Boyd
Vice Chair
Norton Rose Fulbright
Minneapolis, MN

Ali Anoff
Procter & Gamble Company
Cincinnati, OH

Brian Batzli
Merchant & Gould
Minneapolis, MN

Erin Block
DeWitt, LLP
Brookfield, WI

Santosh Chari
CPST Intellectual Property
Toronto, ON, Canada

Kristin Cleveland
Klarquist Sparkman
Portland, OR

William Cooper
Cooper Legal Group
Hinckley, OH

Azade Dogan
Woodland Hills, CA

Karl R. Fink
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Chicago, IL

Adam Fowles
Haynes Boone
Plano, TX

Joshua Goldberg
Nath, Goldberg & Meyer
Brooklyn, NY

Brian Gray
Brian Gray Law
Toronto, ON, Canada

Alyssa Heminger
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC

Elizabeth Isaac
Spencer Fane
Oklahoma City, OK

Shradha Jaiswal
AOP Health
Washington, DC

Tracy Kepler
CNA
Chicago, IL

Barry Landy
Ciresi Conlin LLC
Minneapolis, MN

Zong-Wei (Wade) Lin
W&A Intellectual Property Law
Edmonds, WA

Nicolas Marquez Peraca
Osha Bergman
Houston, TX

John Marsh
Bailey Cavalieri
Avondale, PA

Rakhi Nikhanj
Mueting Raasch Group
Minneapolis, MN

Richard Matthews
Williams Mullen
Raleigh, NC

Jennifer Nall
DLA Piper
New York, NY

Margaret Polson
Polson IP Law
Westminster, CO

Marc Richards
Crowell & Moring LLP
Chicago, IL

Ned Sackman
Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer
& Nelson, P. A.
Manchester, NH

Ayyah Saleh
The George Washington University School of Law
Washington, DC

Neil Smith
Alamo, CA

Barrett Spraggins
Spraggins, LLP
Austin, TX

Kelu Sullivan
Kelly IP
Washington, DC

Christopher Turoski
University of Minnesota
Law School
Minneapolis, MN

Stanton D. Weinstein
Fort Washington, PA

Frank West
Oblon
Alexandria, VA

Gene Volchenko
Smith Gambrell
Chicago, IL