Sara Straight Wolf is an experienced business attorney who sees things from the client perspective better than many attorneys, a quality she attributes to her fifteen years of experience in corporate law departments of two Fortune 500 corporations -- first as an attorney with Armco Inc. and then as General Counsel of Lexis-Nexis. Sara’s broad experience includes working in the areas of business entity formation, acquisitions and divestments, financings, licensing, joint ventures, business operations inside and outside the United States, employment law, and intellectual property law (trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and licensing). Currently Sara concentrates in the areas of E-commerce, computer and technology law, and trademark and copyright law. She also practices in the area of employment law. Sara is a certified mediator for the Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Sara received her bachelor’s degree from Miami University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she was a member and Articles Editor of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.

Sara served on the American Bar Association Task Force on Computer Software Licensing from 1993-1999, and served from 1993 to 1995 as President of the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association. She served on the Advisory Board of the Program in Law and Technology for the University of Dayton School of Law from 1990 to 1995. Sara is currently President of the Board of Trustees of Colonial Senior Services, Inc.; Board of Trustees of Fort Hamilton Healthcare Corporation; President of Board of Trustees of Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; Board of Trustees of The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, and member of the Finance Committee. She is also a Member of the West Chester-Liberty Rotary Club as well as a Member of Class V of Leadership Hamilton. In addition, Sara is a former Board Member of Junior Achievement of Greater Butler County; Life Span, Inc.; Butler County Law Library Association, and the Humane Association of Miami Valley.

Sara is a member of the American, Cincinnati, Butler County and the Ohio State Bar Associations.

Sara enjoys speaking in front of groups and is a frequent speaker on trademark and copyright protection, business entity formation, and employment law topics. She also has spoken on commercial loan documentation, lender liability, employee embezzlement, and intellectual property protection in the digital age. In addition, she has spoken about and published articles on employers’ proprietary rights vis a vis their employees.

What’s in a Company Name? Women’s Business Cincinnati, March 2005.

Comment on Dennis S. Karjala’s “Copyright and Misappropriation;” presented at Symposium on Copyright Protection for Computer Databases, CD-ROMS and Factual Compilations, November 1991; published at 17 U. Dayton L. Rev. 951 (1992)