Chamberlain Hrdlicka Announces Two Additions

ATLANTA, Oct. 29, 2014 – Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry is pleased to announce the addition of Erica C. Livingstone as senior counsel and Sara E. Hamilton as an associate in the firm’s Atlanta office. Livingstone joins the firm’s Intellectual Property practice, and Hamilton joins the Labor and Employment practice.

Livingstone represents clients in the areas of patent procurement, litigation, and client counseling, with an emphasis on chemical and pharmaceutical technologies. Her patent procurement experience involves all aspects of preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications, including patent drafting and prosecution, as well as appeals and oral hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She has drafted more than 100 patent applications. In addition, she counsels clients on various opinion matters, including preparation of patentability, validity, infringement, and freedom to operate opinions. Her litigation experience has focused on the representation of innovator pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman litigation involving Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA).

Livingstone’s experience spans a broad range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, ceramics, glass-making and products, paper-making and products, food products, petroleum processing, polymers, minerals, polymorphs, and medical devices. She has worked closely with such companies as Otsuka Pharmaceutical, L’Oreal, Corning Incorporated, Georgia Pacific, Cargill, Imerys and Xerox.

She earned her undergraduate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and her law degree from the Georgia State University College of Law.

Hamilton represents employers in employment litigation, including cases involving Title VII, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and related state statutes. She also has experience providing day-to-day advice on a variety of employment matters, and drafting handbooks, contracts and agreements. Hamilton has obtained favorable results from administrative agencies as well as in federal and state courts, via both motion and trial.

She was a founding board member of the Korean-American Bar Association of Georgia (KABA-GA), and she serves on the board of directors of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta.

She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and her law degree from Emory University School of Law. While in law school, Hamilton clerked at the Atlanta District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor (SOL).

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is a diversified business law firm with offices in Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Philadelphia and San Antonio. The firm represents both public and private companies, as well as individuals and family-owned businesses across the nation. In addition to tax planning and tax controversy, the firm offers counsel in corporate, securities and finance, employment law and employee benefits, energy law, estate planning and administration, intellectual property, international and immigration law, commercial and business litigation, real estate and construction law.