Vedia Jones-Richardson Bio

Vedia Jones-Richardson is an attorney with Olive and Olive, PA, an Intellectual Property Law firm in Durham, North Carolina, with a practice emphasizing trademark, copyright and licensing matters. She counsels clients in the evaluation, protection, procurement, transfer and commercialization of legal rights in creative works ranging from the arts to technology, and with respect to trademarks and other commercial communications.

A graduate of Howard University, School of Fine Arts (B.F.A., 1978) and Georgetown University Law School (J.D., 1982), Ms. Jones-Richardson first became licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, and then moved on to Chicago, Illinois and now lives in North Carolina. Her work on the commercial side of the television, advertising and consumer products industries, and as a consultant for software development, has provided considerable firsthand experience in those industries that she brings to her private law practice.

Active in several professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers and North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, she is a former chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, a former president of the Durham and Orange Association of Women Attorneys, Vice Chair of the ABA Women Rainmakers and has served on several ABA commissions and standing committees focused on technology and practice development issues.  She recently was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management and chairs the Local Bar Services Committee (which produces the annual Bar Leadership Institute) for the NC Bar Association, as well as the ABA Women Rainmakers Workshop, which she founded in 2007 and is a founding board member of InternetBar.org.

As a former graphic artist, Vedia also has been an ongoing supporter of arts and culture, serving as President of the Durham Arts Council, Vice President of the Durham Library Foundation, and on the Durham Cultural Master Plan Steering Committee and Executive Committee, the Kenan Institute for the Arts Program Advisory Board, and the North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Chicago Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.