Julie C. King

I help clients protect their most valuable business assets: their ideas and inventions, their purpose, and their products.

I help clients protect themselves and their assets through a combination of intellectual property management, business planning, and estate planning.

I help business owners start and run their businesses successfully.

I help clients keep their focus on the core parts of the business, the things that made them want to do it in the first place, by making sure their foundations and legal strategies are strong and tailored to their unique needs. My focus on clients’ legal issues takes that off their list of things that keep them up at night.

My goal for each client is to make sure I’ve helped them take the right steps to protect what they’ve worked hard to achieve, succeed in future endeavors, and have peace of mind that planning has been done correctly and with their individual goals in mind.

How do I do it well? I’m not just an attorney. Like my clients, I’m a business owner. That helps me understand my clients and their issues and challenges. Those are two very different hats to wear, and I love both of them. Most attorneys don’t enjoy running a business so don’t do it and don’t know what it’s like to be a business owner. I do.

I know what it’s like to build a business from scratch. I understand the joys and the fears.

I market my practice, so I understand the importance of branding. I help clients make sure their business names are available and able to be registered for their own protection and ability to keep others from copying. I make sure clients’ logos and slogans serve them well, not cause problems because they’re too similar to something someone else is already using.

Knowing I’ve helped someone make their business successful is what I love about what I do.

University of Illinois - Springfield

M.S. (2014) | Computer Science

2012 - 2014

Honors: Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society

University of Illinois College of Law

J.D. (1999) | Law

1996 - 1999

Honors: High Honors in Legal Writing and Research; Honors in Introduction to Advocacy; Dean’s List

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Conflict Between Individual Justice and National Healing in the Post-Apartheid Age

Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law

1998

Should Former Government Leaders Be Subject to Prosecution After Their Term in Office? The Case of South African President P. W. Botha

California Western International Law Journal

1991

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Member

2023 - Current

National Small Business Association Leadership Council

Member

2023 - Current

Activities: Economic Development Council Technology Council

Entreprenista League

Founding Lifetime Member

2021 - Current

United States Patent and Trademark Office  # 79375

Registered Patent Attorney

2020 - Current

University of Illinois Laboratory High School Alumni Association

Member, Board of Directors

2019 - Current

Georgia

Since 2007

Illinois

Since 2001

Tennessee

2000-2002

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Since 2020

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