Washington, D.C. (March 31, 2021) – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is pleased to announce that Director Monica Riva Talley has once again been recognized as a “Top Author” by the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards. This annual recognition highlights top authors and firms for their thought leadership in key topics read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media, and other professionals during the previous year. This is the fifth consecutive year Talley has won this award.

Talley, head of the firm’s Trademark & Brand Protection Practice, was ranked as the number one top author in the area of trademarks. She was selected for the visibility and engagement that her work attained over the last year from among thousands of other authors. Talley also leads the team of writers for Sterne Kessler’s monthly e-newsletter “MarkIt to Market®,” which covers developments and trends in trademarks and brand protection. To access this and other Sterne Kessler newsletters covering timely topics in intellectual property law, please click here.

About JD Supra’s “Readers’ Choice Awards”

JD Supra editors chose the 28 main topics covered in this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards for their timeliness as well as their proven, ongoing importance. In each category, JD Supra recognizes ten authors and one firm for consistently highest readership and engagement within that category for all of 2020. This year, 265 authors were selected from over 58,000 for their excellence and achievement. JD Supra delivers need-to-know legal and business content to professionals in all industries in daily email digests, via more than 100 proprietary social feeds, on mobile platforms, to partner websites, and as news across the web.

About Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

Based in Washington, D.C. and renowned for more than four decades for dedication to the protection, transfer, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is one of the most highly regarded intellectual property specialty law firms in the world. Its team of attorneys, registered patent agents, students, and technical specialists include some of the country’s most respected practitioners of IP law tackling innovations across a broad spectrum of industries. The firm’s practitioners hold over 50 masters and over 50 doctorate degrees in science or engineering and represent Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, inventors, venture capital firms, and universities in a client service driven environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. Visit the firm online at sternekessler.com.