Andy Norwood is a member of Waller Lansden and has extensive experience in the practice of law as it pertains to intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, First Amendment issues and trade secrets. Mr. Norwood is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® (Woodward White, Inc.) and America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers & Partners) for his work in information technology law and intellectual property law.
Mr. Norwood has been involved in hundreds of contract and licensing matters related to acquisitions within the industry. He also has provided primary representation for healthcare clients in matters involving outsourcing, supply chain, payroll function, information systems departments and computer-assisted diagnostic functions. In addition, Mr. Norwood has served as lead counsel in negotiating long-term information outsourcing agreements on behalf of publicly traded healthcare companies. He has negotiated and drafted numerous group purchasing organization agreements related in a variety of fields, especially related to intellectual property. Mr. Norwood was a contributing writer to E-Health Business and Transactional Law, published by the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association.
In the area of publishing, Mr. Norwood has represented more than 50 publishing houses in a wide variety of transactions. He has negotiated the transfer of intellectual property between publishing houses, and he was involved in the acquisition of a publishing house by a publicly traded media conglomerate. In 2004, Mr. Norwood received the Robin Mays Award from the Publishers Association of the South in recognition of his contributions to book publishing in the southern United States.
Mr. Norwood has spoken extensively in seminars and participated in panels on intellectual property issues including copyright, trademark, outsourcing and licensing issues. Recent speaking engagements include “Technology Outsourcing in the Healthcare Industry” at Law Seminars International; “Purgatory - Where Law and Business Intersect” at the Publishers Winter Conference; “SCO v. IBM. The Open Source Dispute” at Nashville Bar Association; “Top 10 Contract Mistakes” at Publishers Association of the South Annual Conference; “Contracts, Conflicts and Copyrights” at Alabama Media Professionals; “Outsourcing: Avoiding the 'Gotchas'“ at a Law Talk Seminar; “E. Commerce in a International Environment” at Association of American Publishers Conference, and lectures in various departments at Vanderbilt University.
Education
J.D., University of Alabama School of Law, 1987
Recipient, M. Leigh Harrison Award for legal writing, 1987
Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of the Legal Profession, 1987
Authored, "The Prosecutor and Pre-Trial Publicity" for The Journal of the Legal Profession (1986-1987)
B.A., cum laude, University of Alabama, 1984
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Law Clerk, Honorable Sam A. Beatty, Supreme Court of Alabama
Staff Attorney, Honorable Hugh Maddox, Supreme Court of Alabama
Associate, King and Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, 1988-1994
Professional Activities
Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
Chair, Intellectual Property Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Co-author, "Contracting Principles for E-Health Transactions" in 2007 Cumulative Supplement to E-Health Business and Transactional Law published by the American Bar Association Health Law Section
Civic and Other Activities
Member, Board of Directors of the GEAR Foundation
Past Member, Board of Trust of the O'More College of Design
President, University of Alabama Publishers Association
Author, "30 Life Lessons My Boys Learned from Baseball", Pelican Publishing
