Mark Blankenship Jr.

Mark Edward Blankenship Jr. is an associate at Ott Law Firm in St. Louis, Missouri. His specializations include: - Intellectual Property Law - Sports & Entertainment Transactions - Arts, Music, & Fashion Licensing - Alcohol Beverage Regulation - Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Law - Labor & Employment Litigation - Business & Nonprofit Formation - Unfair Competition & Commercial Law During his time at Ott Law Firm, he also remotely earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.), with an emphasis in intellectual property law, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Before working at Ott Law Firm, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law (2019), where he served as the Operations Manager/Communications Editor for Volume 107 of the Kentucky Law Journal (the tenth oldest continually published law review in the United States), the Vice President for the UK Sports & Entertainment Law Society, and as a member for various other student organizations. Blankenship has written legal excerpts and other scholarship for: - Arizona State Sports and Entertainment Law Journal - Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University - Illinois Business Law Journal - Kentucky Law Journal Online - Richmond Journal of Law & Technology - Nevada Law Journal Forum - UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law (formerly John Marshall RIPL) - Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law - Wake Forest Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law Prior to law school, he graduated magna cum laude from Georgia Southern University with a B.A. in Music (percussion emphasis), and a minor in Business. During his undergraduate studies, Blankenship performed in various ensembles and was a member of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity of America