About the Attorney
Lerae Funderburg
Founder & Managing Attorney, Culture Kept Legal
B. Lerae Funderburg is an intellectual property attorney who helps experts protect and commercialize the ideas, brands, methodologies, and creative assets their businesses are built upon.
With more than 15 years of experience across intellectual property, entertainment, business transactions, trademarks, copyright, licensing, publishing, and creative industries, Lerae approaches intellectual property as more than a registration exercise.
Her work begins with more fundamental questions:
- What have you created?
- Who owns it?
- How should it be protected?
- And how can the business grow without unnecessarily giving away the value, ownership, or control behind it?
Today, her practice focuses particularly on expert-led businesses whose knowledge has evolved into proprietary methodologies, signature frameworks, educational programs, certifications, curricula, content, and valuable brands.
Her experience representing creators and businesses in industries where ownership, licensing, attribution, control, and commercialization matter provides the foundation for Culture Kept Legal’s approach to protecting the expert economy.
Throughout her career, Lerae has served hundreds of clients across trademark, copyright, entertainment, contract, licensing, and business matters, including work protecting intellectual property supporting six- and seven-figure brands and structuring high-value agreements for clients across entertainment, media, wellness, and entrepreneurship.
Lerae is licensed in California, Georgia, and the District of Columbia and represents trademark clients nationwide before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Experience Built Beyond the Application
Lerae’s trademark counsel is informed by more than the registration process. Over the course of her career, she has advised clients on the contracts, licensing relationships, entertainment transactions, ownership structures, and long-term planning that determine whether intellectual property can be successfully controlled, monetized, and preserved.
That experience allows Culture Kept Legal to evaluate a trademark as part of the business behind it—not as an isolated government filing.
Intellectual Property
Federal trademark and copyright protection, ownership strategy, portfolio development, enforcement, and preservation
Entertainment & Media
Agreements and intellectual property matters involving recording artists, producers, writers, filmmakers, public figures, and creative companies
Business & Licensing
Negotiation and structuring of contracts, licenses, collaborations, partnerships, and revenue-generating brand relationships
Long-Term Ownership
Protecting valuable intellectual property from creation and monetization through succession and estate planning
Recognition & Published Features
Lerae’s legal work, entrepreneurship, and advocacy have been recognized by national and regional media platforms covering law, business, entertainment, culture, and women’s leadership.
- Yahoo Finance
- Rolling Out
- Atlanta Tribune
- Sheen Magazine
- Enspire Magazine
- Purpose Magazine
- Shoutout Atlanta
- Sistahbiz Global Network
- Women of Excellence
- In The City Magazine
- VoyageATL
- IMDb
Selected Features
- Meet Lerae FunderburgCanvasRebel
- 7 Black Women Attorneys You Should KnowSistahbiz Global Network
- Lerae Funderburg Helps Others Build a Legacy Through Her Law PracticeRolling Out
- Attorney Lerae Funderburg Helps Black Mothers in BusinessENSPIRE Magazine
- Q&A: Entertainment Law with Lerae FunderburgMRC Hip Hop
Experience Across Entertainment & Culture
Over more than 15 years, Lerae’s work has intersected with matters involving nationally recognized entertainment companies, media platforms, music publishers, record labels, festivals, and creative properties.
Film, Television & Media
Experience involving matters connected to leading film, television, and media platforms
Music, Publishing & Recorded Entertainment
Experience involving major and independent record labels, music publishers, recording artists, producers, and entertainment companies
Creators, Founders & Public Figures
Trusted counsel to individuals and businesses building valuable brands, bodies of work, audiences, and commercial opportunities
Who She Serves
Lerae works with creators, founders, and entrepreneurs; personality brands and public-facing experts; wellness businesses; and culturally significant brands whose names carry reputation, community, and revenue.
How She Works
Her practice follows The Culture Kept Method™, Recognize, Assess, Protect, Preserve, so that protection is built around the business behind the brand rather than around a single filing.
Services She Provides
- IP Strategy & Ownership
- Proprietary Methods & Frameworks
- Trademarks & Brand Protection
- Licensing & Certification
- Outside IP Counsel
- Trademark Search and Strategic Opinion
- Trademark Registration
- Office Action Responses
- Trademark Watch and Maintenance
- Trademark Disputes, Enforcement, and Recovery
Bar admissions are limited to California, Georgia, and the District of Columbia. Trademark matters are federal and handled nationwide before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. No certification of specialization is claimed, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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