About Lucas Michels

Lucas brings a varied legal and business background to Ironmark. He advises entrepreneurs, businesses, and artists on intellectual property, corporate, and commercial law, as well as various regulatory compliance matters. Before becoming a lawyer, Lucas worked in foreign regulatory compliance and international lobbying in Brussels and Seattle. Drawing from these experiences, Lucas understands the day-to-day domestic and cross-border legal and regulatory obstacles businesses face, and provides tailored legal services to meet and overcome these challenges.

Particularly, Lucas assists clients with copyright and trademark prosecution and portfolio management, IP and commercial transaction negotiation and drafting, and corporate formation and governance-related services. He also represents clients in IP, corporate, and commercial litigation and arbitration before state, federal, and administrative tribunals, including the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy arbitration panels. Lucas also continues to work with clients on a variety of regulatory compliance matters, ranging from privacy, to food and agricultural product processing, and export compliance.

Lucas also has extensive experience, including authoring and presenting, on the topic of online intellectual property and personality rights enforcement. He has managed online enforcement campaigns for multiple brands, photographers, and victims of revenge pornography, as well as acting as copyright agent for multiple online service providers.