Cleveland associate Allison Smith Newsome will be a speaker at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association seminar, “Creating the Art and Protecting the Work.” The program will be held via Zoom on Friday, March 18 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.

The seminar will feature a panel discussing arts-related contracts, social media protection and Intellectual Property, and will provide insight for current and future arts professionals along with Continued Legal Education credit. The event is being hosted in partnership with the CMBA’s Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a committee that oversees and coordinates projects connecting legal professions and local artists/arts organizations.

For more information and to register for the seminar, visit here.

Newsome focuses her practice on the representation of hospitals, physician groups, and other health care organizations regarding the regulatory, transactional, and business aspects of health care law. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Board of Directors and is also involved in the Rocky River Juvenile Diversion Program as a volunteer magistrate. Additionally, Newsome counsels research organizations and medical device companies and has experience in matters pertaining to telehealth, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. She earned her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2019, with a concentration in health law, and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2016.