L. Brett Lockwood
Brett Lockwood is a partner in the Corporate Section of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and chairs the Firm’s Technology Law Practice Group.
His practice areas include corporate technology, licensing law, e-commerce matters, strategic alliances, venture capital matters, corporate and commercial finance, mergers and acquisitions, communications and general business law matters.
Mr. Lockwood currently serves on the Board of the Business & Technology Alliance, the Board for the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum and the Board of the Association for Strategic Alliance Professionals. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of Georgia Technology Forum. For the past several years, he has been included on the annual list of “Atlanta’s Top 50 Who’s Who in Technology” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He has also been named one of Atlanta’s “Twenty Techies to Know.” He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, where from 1995-1997 he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgia Bar Journal. His other professional affiliations include: member of the Georgia Bar’s Corporate and Banking Law Section and the Computer Law Section; former subcommittee chair of the Committee on Adult Literacy; former member of Board of Directors of the University of North Florida National Alumni Association; and founding board member and past officer of the Board of Directors of Literacy Volunteers of America — Metropolitan Atlanta and recipient of that organization’s 1993 Jane T. Barton Volunteer of the Year Award.
Mr. Lockwood received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of North Florida, performed graduate studies at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and received his J.D. degree, with distinction, from Emory University School of Law. During law school, he was Executive Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal and is the recipient of the 1989 Myron Penn Laughlin Award for excellence in legal research and writing and the 1990 State Bar of Georgia Author’s Court Award for legal writing. He also received American Jurisprudence Awards in Intellectual Property Law and Jurisprudence. During law school, Mr. Lockwood interned with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Mr. Lockwood has written and published articles on numerous business and legal topics in both regional and national publications and has spoken widely on technology and business-related legal topics.
Prior to law school, Mr. Lockwood taught at St. Sergius School in New York, New York, the country’s only Russian-American educational institution, from 1981-1984 and in 1984 he was selected by the school’s administration as Teacher of the Year. From 1984-1987, Mr. Lockwood was a senior auditor with Fulton Federal Savings Bank in Atlanta, obtaining the IIA’s Certified Internal Auditor (C.I.A.) designation.
