Faculty Member, Law
Assistant Professor of Law
School of Law
About
Tonya M. Evans, is Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law (Harrisburg campus) and an attorney specializing in the areas of entertainment law (literary, music and film), intellectual property (copyright and trademark), estate planning, and municipal finance.
Professor Evans is a nationally recognized speaker who presents to various audiences regularly on entertainment and intellectual property law.
She is a former Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Sports, Entertainment and Art Law Committee, and has served as an adjunct professor of copyright, publishing and licensing at York College of Pennsylvania.
Tonya, known affectionately as "Lawyer by Day, Poet by Night" is also a performance poet and writer, and the author of numerous books, including Contracts Companion for Writers, Copyright Companion for Writers, Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark, and Contracts in Plain Language, Seasons of Her and SHINE! Her short story, Not Tonight appears in an anthology titled Proverbs for the People, published by Kensington.
Tonya attended Northwestern University on a four-year tennis scholarship, and thereafter she competed on the women's professional tennis circuit and played most notably in the US Open, Virginia Slims of Philadelphia, and Lipton in 1993. Thereafter, she attended Howard University School of Law on an academic scholarship, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Law Journal and graduated with honors.
She hosts an intellectual property law blog at ipprof.blogspot.com and is a regular contributor to hiphoplaw.blogspot.com. Visit her on the web at www.legalwritepublications.com and on twitter @ legalwritepub.
Contact Information
http://law.widener.edu/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/EvansWallsTonyaM.aspx
3800 Vartan Way
P.O. Box 69381
Harrisburg, PA 17106
717-541-1938
