Lawyers Who Care, host Andrew Samalin, interviews Katherine de Vos Devine, principal attorney at Implement Legal in North Carolina. Katherine’s practice provides intellectual property and corporate counsel services to creative businesses, artists, and cultural institutions.

Katherine explains how growing up surrounded by artists and earning advanced degrees in art history led her to intellectual property law. She shares a client story about a large public art installation, highlighting how her firm approaches legal work as relational rather than adversarial, with a focus on long-term relationships among artists, fabricators, commissioners, and communities.

She also discusses why emotions matter in legal transactions and how acknowledging them leads to better outcomes for creative clients.

Topics covered:

- Intellectual property and corporate counsel for creative businesses

- Relational law vs. adversarial legal models

- Facilitating long-term artist and client relationships

- Supporting public art and cultural projects

- Why feelings are valuable data in legal decision-making

Connect with Katherine de Vos Devine:

Website: implementlegal.com

Email: [email protected]