About Legal Write PublicationsWe provide comprehensive yet easy-to-understand legal reference guides for writers. Each publication is written by an experienced literary law and intellectual property attorney, and designed with the writer in mind.
We listen to the writer's most pressing questions and publish reference guides that provide the answers, as well as all of the essential legal information that writers need to understand, protect, and maximize the value of their intellectual property rights.
About Tonya Evans-Walls
Tonya M. Evans-Walls, Esq., is a Professor and attorney with expertise in the areas of entertainment law (literary, music and film), intellectual property (copyright and trademark), estate planning, and municipal finance. She is the Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Sports, Entertainment and Art Law committee and is a nationally recognized speaker who presents to various audiences regularly on publishing and intellectual property law and estate planning issues.
Ms. Evans-Walls is a poet and writer and the author of numerous books, including Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark, and Contracts in Plain Language, Seasons of Her and SHINE! Forthcoming titles include Copyright Companion for Writers (Fall 2006) and Contracts Companion for Writers (Spring 2007). Her short story, Not Tonight appears in an anthology titled Proverbs for the People, published by Kensington. Prior to law school, Mrs. Evans-Walls competed on the women's professional tennis circuit and played most notably in the US Open, Virginia Slims of Philadelphia, and Lipton in 1993. She now lives in Philadelphia with her husband, O. Russel Walls, III, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
