Heather Hubbard is a partner with Waller Lansden and serves on the firm’s Diversity and Associate Development committees. Her practice focuses on business and complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution. Ms. Hubbard also provides day-to-day management and strategic advice to clients related to issues ranging from privacy, cyber/internet, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, regulatory compliance, and document retention policies.
Entertainment and media companies, financial institutions, manufacturers, distributors, franchises and dealerships rely on Ms. Hubbard for advice and counsel related to copyright, patent and trademark infringement, unfair competition, tortious interference, and false advertising. She also assists companies and individuals with matters involving franchise and dealership disputes, antitrust, defamation, sports licensing, misappropriation of name and likeness, breach of contract, counterfeiting, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and breach of commercial non-compete provisions.
Ms. Hubbard often serves as “ESI coordinator” in federal litigation, overseeing and planning cost-effective methods to collect, review and produce large amounts of data, including millions of pages of documents.
Ms. Hubbard frequently speaks on various business litigation, ethics and intellectual property law issues for trade and industry groups and professional organizations. She has authored works in local and national publications related to intellectual property and discovery issues, including a chapter entitled “Foreign Discovery” in the upcoming ABA’s Copyright Litigation Handbook.
Ms. Hubbard was named a “Rising Star” by Mid-South Super Lawyers and named one of Nashville’s Top “30 Under 30.”
Education
J.D., Vanderbilt University, 2004
Executive Justice for National First Amendment Competition, Moot Court Board
Author, "Family Feud in the Entertainment Industry: Section 304(a) of the Copyright Act and its Impact on Estate Distribution," 21 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 407 (2003)
Recipient, American Bar Association Entertainment Law Initiative Award
B.A., summa cum laude, History and Political Science, University of Louisville, 2001
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Associate, Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C., Nashville, Tenn., 2004-2006
Professional Activities
Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations (Litigation, Entertainment & Sports Law and Intellectual Property Sections (including former Executive Council Member and Chair, Copyright Subcommittee of the TBA Intellectual Property Committee and former author of “Legislative Update” for TBA Entertainment & Sports Quarterly Newsletter)
Member, Media Defense Resource Center, Entertainment Law Committee
Member, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
Voting Member, Country Music Association
Member, Copyright Society of the USA and Copyright Society of the South
Civic and Other Activities
W.O. Smith School of Music, Advisory Board
Tennessee Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts
Former Mock Trial Coach, Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School
Professional Licenses
Tennessee
Court Admissions
United States District Courts of the Middle, Eastern, and Western Districts of Tennessee
