Liani Kotcher

Liani Kotcher is a trial attorney-turned-fiction author, blogger, and course creator who makes learning business issues for creatives easy to understand and entertaining. Liani has over a decade of experience as an intellectual property attorney at one of the top law firms in the world. Liani's practice is concentrated in the area of complex commercial/civil litigation including trial and appellate work in state and federal court and before various administrative agencies including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the National Hockey League, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Liani has a broad range of substantive experience as both defense counsel and plaintiff’s counsel in complex class actions and multi-district proceedings involving intellectual property and trade secret law, labor and employment law, corporate governance, internal investigations/governmental investigations, entertainment and sports law, securities law, insurance law, products liability law, tort law, and bankruptcy. Amounts in dispute range from $50,000 to billions of dollars. Liani also has a depth of experience in corporate counseling and advising corporate clients on issues ranging including employment issues, SEC violations, cyber security issues, corporate due diligence, and internal investigations. Her clients include numerous Fortune 500 private and public companies in a variety of industry segments including: media and entertainment, technology, private equity and banking, food/beverage, transportation, insurance, retail and manufacturing industries, and non-profit. As a Young Adult fiction author writing under the pen name Rektok Ross, Liani has published an Amazon bestselling Young Adult contemporary romance, PRODIGAL, and her next book, a Young Adult thriller--SKI WEEKEND--will be published in fall 2021 by SparkPress. Liani is also the creator of the popular online course COPYRIGHT 101, a premiere educational course specifically designed for authors, bloggers, and creatives to take them step-by-step to understand what copyright is (and isn’t), how it works to protect IP, the biggest pitfalls to be aware of, how to properly register a copyright, how to properly use other’s work without running afoul of copyright rules, and how to stop someone from stealing IP. It’s Liani’s goal as a legal educator to make learning business for creatives as simple, accessible, and entertaining as possible so they can focus their time on what really matters--creating! (Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome)