Technology and Intellectual Property

Entertainment, Music and Sports

Food and Beverage Industries

Women's Initiative Steering Committee, Co-Chair

• Kentucky, 1985

• University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., 1985
• Morehead State University, B.A., 1982, magna cum laude

Cynthia is a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC. She focuses her practice in the technology field, representing both technology providers and businesses that license, acquire and/or develop their own technology. She regularly negotiates complex multi-million dollar development agreements and joint venture and other long term relationship agreements in the technology field. Cynthia is a strong proponent of addressing the hard questions up front to better ensure a successful long term relationship between a provider and its business client.

Cynthia also has experience in the entertainment field, including representing a movie production company, publishers of niche magazines, authors, thoroughbred owners, breeders and associations for the same, musicians and music production companies. She has negotiated endorsement contracts for her clients with sports celebrities and other nationally known sports groups.

Experience

She is often the lead attorney dealing with regulators and handling multi-million dollar closings, resulting in a strong transactional background.

As part of her technology and intellectual property practice, she continues to provide general business advice to clients, many of whom are technology providers, in connection with entity formation, strategic alliances, acquisitions, business expansion and other topics of general business law.

Co-Founder: 1999 University of Kentucky School of Law Computer Law Institute seminar series
Served as a speaker and co-chair of that program in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002.

GE "Preferred Provider"
Commercial information technology work

Partner for several years in the Firm’s Acquisitions and Financial Institutions Practice Group

• The Best Lawyers in America®, Woodward/White, Inc. in the fields of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law, 2003-2012
• Chambers USA® America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Intellectual Property, 2011
• Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• American Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association
• International Trademark Association, Women Lawyers Association

• Walden Theatre, a nationally recognized professional theater group for young people, Served for two years as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors; Served for six years on its Board of Directors
• Louisville Chamber of Commerce’s CEO Strategic Planning Program, Served as a planning partner for the president of a local company
• Over a dozen local not-for-profit arts and charitable organizations, Provides pro-bono intellectual property and other legal assistance

Speaker: The University of Kentucky's Annual Equine Law Seminar on intellectual property issues in 2005. This is the premier equine law seminar.

Contributing Author: "Inside the Minds: The Laws Behind Technology"
Aspatore Books, 2004