Debra Hutchings focuses her practice on marketing law and e-commerce. She advises clients regarding advertising and promotions in traditional, digital and emerging media. Ms. Hutchings reviews advertising and marketing materials for legal compliance, and negotiates and drafts domestic and international marketing agreements including Client-Agency agreements and those involving spokespersons, celebrity talent, music licensing, sponsorship, joint marketing and co-promotions, and brand licensing, among others. She also reviews and negotiates general commercial contracts for software licenses, consulting services, and purchase and sale transactions, among many others.
Ms. Hutchings began her career in the law department of Navistar, and later served as an associate at the Reed Smith, LLP law firm, where she provided counsel primarily to two of that firm’s clients, Leo Burnett Advertising and AT&T.
She also served as a Judicial Extern for the U.S. Federal Judge Ronald Guzman (Northern District of Illinois) as well as for Illinois Circuit Judge John Madden (Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County, Chancery Division).
- Friedman Law Group
- Reed Smith LLP
- Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.
- International Truck & Engine Corporation (Navistar)
- John Marshall Law School, J.D.
- North Central College