Brent is Attorney at Law and a Shareholder and Chair of the Emerging Business and Technology Practice Group at Gray Robinson, PA.
He specializes in intellectual property, licensing, technology transactions, corporate law, and general legal compliance. Brent provides a broad spectrum of legal services to entrepreneurs, emerging technology companies, and innovative enterprises of all sizes. His practice bridges numerous legal areas including intellectual property strategy and prosecution, licensing and technology transactions, intellectual property auditing and controls, media and entertainment issues and transactions, open source issues and licensing, Internet-related law, virtual reality law, sweepstakes and gambling, venture funding transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions of all kinds. Brent's multidiscipline experience also enables him to serve his clients in areas relating to software, digital media, telecommunications, nanotechnology, materials science, security systems, mechanical devices, medical devices, and business methods.
Brent was a founding partner of the noted San Francisco law firm, Britton Silberman & Cervantez. A former software engineer, he is the only graduate of the MIT Media Lab to become an attorney and was recently invited to deliver the Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the MIT Media Lab. Brent is an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa Sykes College of Business. He writes and lectures frequently on topics relating to the law and business of innovation, entrepreneurship, and ethics in technology, science, art, and design. Brent co-hosts the CEO Lounge, a weekly podcast and radio show on Talk Radio AM 860 WGUL, on which he interviews the CEOs, entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators from Tampa Bay and around the world.