Sharon Toerek
Phone: (216) 573-6000
Fax: (216) 573-6333
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Sharon L. Toerek focuses her legal practice at Licata & Toerek on intellectual property law, advising clients on trademark, copyright, trade secret, non-competition, and other intellectual property matters, corporate transactions, and business law issues.
Toerek has a particular concentration of clients in the advertising, marketing and creative services industries, and she provides legal counsel on legal issues faced by those industries including copyright and content protection, licensing of creative content, trademark and brand protection matters, agency service contracts, advertising compliance, and direct marketing regulations.
In the communications industry, Toerek is a recognized author and educator in her areas of expertise to numerous advertising and communications industries organizations, advertising agencies, and in-house marketing teams, and has created and presented numerous training sessions to industry professionals that enable them to recognize legal issues and protect their valuable work and rights.
Toerek has chaired the Intellectual Property Section of the Cleveland Bar Association, and has conducted numerous presentations on intellectual property law topics before the Cleveland Bar Asssociation, American Advertising Federation (AAF) Cleveland, the Independent Practitioner’s Group, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Akron, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Cleveland, and the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Council of Small Enterprises (COSE).
In her community, Toerek serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP), the Council of Small Enterprises (COSE), as both Vice President of Membership Development and Chair of Government Relations of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Cleveland, and as Legal Advisor to Northeast Ohio Communications Affiliates (NOCA), an umbrella organization for Northeast Ohio's professional communications organizations.
Toerek received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Cleveland State University, and a Juris Doctor from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
When she takes a break from making the world safe for her clients’ intellectual property, Toerek enjoys literature, movies, and biking in the Cuyahoga Valley National Parks. She lives in Sagamore Hills with her husband, Ed Toerek.