Robert E. Spoo, Attorney

Robert Spoo is Of Counsel with the firm's Litigation Department. He concentrates his practice in intellectual property, copyrights and general litigation.  

Mr. Spoo has experience providing copyright and intellectual property advice and litigation assistance to a wide range of clients including universities, libraries, scholars, writers, sports media, record companies and filmmakers and software technology companies. He has advised Vietnam 's Ministry of Education and Training regarding the development and protection of intellectual property within the country's university system.

Mr. Spoo is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law, where he teaches a range of courses including Copyright Law, Contracts, Constitutional Law, and Decedents' Estates and Trusts. Previously, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked as an attorney with law firms in New York and San Francisco . Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Spoo was a tenured member of the English Department at the University of Tulsa and served for ten years as Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly. He has authored or edited numerous books and articles on modern fiction and poetry, and regularly publishes and speaks on copyright law and other legal subjects.