Lori Krafte
- Partner
Lori Krafte is a Partner with Wood Herron & Evans. Lori counsels clients in all areas of advertising, trademarks, copyrights, and privacy. She teaches Advertising Law and Trademark Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she helped launch and was the first Trademark Co-Director of the pro bono Patent and Trademark Clinic, received the University’s Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award, and twice received the College of Law’s Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Lori has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, Ohio Super Lawyers, Cincy Leading Lawyers, Chambers USA, IP Stars, and World Trademark Review Top 1000. She holds a CIPP/US certification (Certified Information Privacy Professional – U.S.).
Areas Of Practice
- Advertising
- Copyrights
- Privacy/Data Security
- Publishing/Media
- Trademarks
Bar Admissions
- Ohio, 1998
Education
- University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio
- J.D. – 1998
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Law Review: University of Cincinnati Law Review, Articles Editor
- Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
- Ph.D. – 1989
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- B.A. – 1976
- Major: Political Science
Published Works
- "What is 'Religion' in Religion-Based Peremptory Challenges?", Law Review, University of Cincinnati
- "Judicial Interpretation of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995", Law Review, University of Cincinnati
Classes / Seminars
- Adjunct Instructor, Electronic Media Law, UC College Conservatory of Music
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Copyright and Advertising Law, U.C. College of Law
- Adjunct Faculty, U.C. College of Law (Trademarks; Advertising Law)
Honors And Awards
- Elected Member, The American Law Institute, 2021 - present
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Advertising Law, 2007 - present
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Trademark Law, 2012 - present (Cincinnati Trademark Lawyer of the Year, 2013, 2020)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Copyright Law, 2013 - present (Cincinnati Copyright Lawyer of the Year, 2016)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, IP Litigation, 2013 - present
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Privacy and Data Security Law, 2023
- Listed in IP Stars (Managing Intellectual Property), 2013 - present, including IP Stars Top 250 Women in IP, 2013
- Listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Intellectual Property, 2006 - present
- Listed in World Trademark Review “WTR Top 1000”, 2021 - present
- Listed in Cincy Leading Lawyers, 2006 - present, Copyright & Trademark
- Listed in Ohio Super Lawyers, 2008 - present
- Listed in Ohio Super Lawyers, Top 25 Women Lawyers in Cincinnati, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013
- Listed in Ohio Super Lawyers, Top 50 Women Lawyers in Ohio, 2009
- Listed in Ohio Rising Stars, 2006 - 2007
- Distinguished Service Award, AAF Cincinnati, 2013
- University of Cincinnati College of Law, Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award (university-wide), 2020
- University of Cincinnati College of Law, Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2008, 2015
Professional Associations And Memberships
- All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property, Chair, 2014 - present
- AdClub (AAF Cincinnati), President, 2011 - 2012
- AdClub (AAF Cincinnati), Executive Vice President, 2010 - 2011
- AdClub (AAF Cincinnati), Board of Directors, 2009 - 2011
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, Chair, Board of Directors, 2019 - 2021
- Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, Vice President and Treasurer, Board of Directors, 2017 - 2019
- Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, Board of Directors, 2011 – present
- Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, Chair, Board of Center for Ethics, 2021 - 2023
- CincyIP (Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association), 2007 - Present
- CincyIP (Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association), Board Member, 2009 - 2012
- CincyIP (Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association), Vice President, 2008 - 2009
- CincyIP (Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association), Secretary, 2007 - 2008
- International Association of Privacy Professionals
- International Trademark Association
- Ohio Bar Association