Brandeis Law grads join Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs has hired two graduates of the Brandeis School of Law in its Louisville office.

Michelle Browning Coughlin (Class of 2009) has joined Wyatt's Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service Team as partner. She will concentrate her practice in the areas of trademark and copyright transactional work.  She also advises clients regarding privacy and data security issues, including HIPAA.

Browning Coughlin has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in Intellectual Property; Louisville Magazine “Top Lawyer” in Privacy Information, Trademark and Technology Law and Louisville Business First’s Forty Under 40. She is the founder of “MothersEsquire,” an organization that provides resources and promotes policies and practices that recognize and accommodate attorneys' family needs, which now has nearly 2000 members nationwide. Browning Coughlin will lead Wyatt’s Wyatt Women’s Network program.

Daniel P. Reed (Class of 2016) joins Wyatt’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Service Team as an associate. His focus will be in the areas of commercial disputes, health care litigation and employment matters. Prior to joining Wyatt, Reed was a clerk for the Honorable Edward B. Atkins, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. While in law school, Reed was editor in chief of the University of Louisville Law Review and excelled in areas related to litigation, winning the Kentucky Mock Trial Competition, receiving a CALI award for the highest grade in trial practice and earning a certificate of distinction in litigation skills.