K. M. Davis Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Focus

  • Business Formation and Shareholder/Owner Agreements
  • General Business Legal Issues
  • Intellectual Property
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Tax Law
  • E-Commerce and Online Business
  • Estate Planning (including Business Succession)
  • Partnership Agreements and Dissolutions

Representative Experience

  • Regularly presents to various audiences and advises clients on social networking and online business issues
  • Achieved previously unattainable concessions while representing various vendors in negotiations with two international big-box retailers
  • Handles various local and national emerging businesses with their various business needs, including contract review and negotiation, shareholder issues, choice of entity, intellectual property and some tax issues
  • Assisted in due diligence gathering, analysis, negotiation and drafting for various national and international mergers and acquisitions for clients ranging from single member entities to publicly traded companies
  • Advises clients on intellectual property issues, including registration of trademarks and copyrights, intellectual property asset management, infringement claims and online intellectual property issues

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota

Professional Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Minnesota State Bar Association
  • Minnesota Lavender Bar Association
  • Hennepin County Bar Association

Professional / Academic Honors

  • Member of PFund Development Committee
  • Past President of the Board, Quorum (Twin Cities GLBTA Chamber of Commerce)
  • Past Co-Chair, Task Force on Rights of Unmarried Couples, Minnesota State Bar Association
  • Who’s Who of American Law Students

Other Professional Experience

  • Attorney, Henson & Efron, P.A., Minneapolis, MN
  • Legal Assistant, Dicke, Billig & Czaja, Minneapolis, MN

Publications / Speaking Engagements

  • Featured Speaker at Quorum's Business Institute 2008-2010, Presenting on Various Topics including Internet Issues for Business Owners; Choice of Entity, Employment Law Basics and Small Business Tax Issues
  • Guest Presenter for Enterprise Minnesota Entrepreneur's Roundtable
  • Guest appearances on 107.1 Radio’s Balanced Breakfast with Ian and Margery on the topic of Social Networking and Facebook®, March and April 2009
  • Guest appearance on WCCO Radio’s The Don Shelby Show on the topic of Social Networking and Facebook®, March 2009
  • Guest appearance on WCCO Radio with host Jearlyn Steele on the topic of blogging, April 2008
  • Featured speaker, "Marketing Your Practice to the GLBT Community," Minnesota Lavender Bar Association’s annual Regional Lavender Law conference, January 2008
  • Guest appearances on WCCO Radio’s Mondale and Jones Show on the topic of business law
  • Featured and quoted in LawCrossing’s national publication JD Journal, "‘Coming Out’ Before the Courtroom," February 2007
  • Authored "What business bloggers can and can’t do," Upsize magazine, November 2006
  • Spoke on the topic of Blogging on The Susie Jones and Eleanor Mondale Show, WCCO-AM radio, November 2006

Community Activities

  • Volunteer Lawyer, LegalCORPS, a Minnesota organization that connects volunteer lawyers with microbusinesses and nonprofits
  • Volunteer Lawyer, Coalition Against Toxic Toys
  • Election Protection Volunteer, Take Action Minnesota

Education

  • Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, William Mitchell College of Law
  • Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Bucknell University