Briana Thibeau focuses her practice on intellectual property and commercial contracts matters. Her expertise includes copyright and trademark law and legal issues relating to the internet, digital media, and e-commerce. She structures, drafts, and negotiates a wide variety of contracts, including technology licensing agreements, vendor contracts, professional services agreements, marketing and branding agreements, collaboration agreements, confidentiality agreements, event contracts, publishing contracts, content licensing, production, and distribution agreements, and bespoke/custom contracts. Briana also assists clients with website terms of use and privacy policies and other user-facing terms and conditions.

Before joining Trister Ross, Briana served as Deputy General Counsel at NPR, providing guidance to the organization on a wide range of legal matters and assisting with new initiatives and strategic planning in support of NPR’s mission. Prior to her time at NPR, she was a senior attorney at Time Warner Cable (now Charter Communications), where she was responsible for negotiating large procurement and technology deals and advising on legal and policy issues relating to the company’s operations. She started her legal career at the law firm of Dow Lohnes PLLC (now part of Cooley LLP) counseling newspaper, broadcast, cable, IT and wireless companies. Briana contributed to the book “Internet Law: A Field Guide,” and has delivered presentations on digital copy protection, fair use, and legal issues in online publishing.

 

Education:

Boston College Law School, J.D.

Colby College, B.A., Political Science

 

Bar Admissions:

District of Columbia

Maryland

Massachusetts

 

Prior Professional Experience:

Deputy General Counsel, NPR

Assistant Chief Counsel, Time Warner Cable

Associate, Dow Lohnes PLLC (now part of Cooley LLP)