Rasheed Mikal McWilliams

Rasheed McWilliams focuses his practice on all aspects of complex civil litigation, entertainment and new media transactions, and intellectual property counseling, enforcement and licensing. Rasheed has represented clients in state and federal courts in a variety of disputes and combines his legal knowledge and business insight to provide optimal solutions to the business and legal problems of his clients.

Rasheed practiced for over 10 years at law firms, including intellectual property powerhouses Fish & Richardson P.C. and Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto. Rasheed has successfully represented large, multi-national corporations in complex copyright, patent and trademark litigations before U.S. District Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Rasheed has also successfully represented content providers in the book publishing, broadcast and satellite radio, film and television, and music industries. 

Rasheed is also the owner of the McWilliams Literary Agency and an affiliated agent of the Kneerim, Williams & Bloom Agency where he counsels both established and upcoming authors in the book publishing industry.  His successes include selling the dramatic and publishing rights to author Mara Shalhoup's initial non-fiction offering, "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family" and the publishing rights to author/actor Michael Boatman's "Last God Standing" and "Who Wants to be The Prince of Darkness?"