Christina Saunders
Christina is a partner at Saunders & Saunders, and top ranked intellectual property and business attorney. Christina practices from our office in Park City, Utah and represents clients throughout the country. Leading with a philosophy built on passion, and guided by a personalized approach with purpose, Christina helps individuals and companies build, expand, protect, and future-proof their equities.
Christina is passionate about helping companies of all sizes. From startups to large established companies, Christina helps businesses grow and thrive through entity formation, organization, operation, capitalization, and financing, and by providing ongoing general corporate support. Christina regularly serves as outside general counsel to a number of companies and provides corporate clients with affordable flat fee options for their ongoing corporate legal needs.
Christina also advises on intellectual property for small and large companies in a variety of industries including consumer products, medical devices, outdoor recreation, software, marketing and advertising, arts, real estate, and cannabis/CBD. Christina has extensive experience in all stages of the brand management process including trademark and copyright selection, clearance, prosecution, maintenance, enforcement, and monetization. Christina also has significant experience in transactions involving intellectual property, including due diligence, drafting and negotiating IP agreements, and assistance in the transfer or sale of intellectual property rights in corporate transactions. Her extensive experience negotiating, obtaining, and commercializing intellectual property assets provides a 360-degree view of branding and creative expression that allows her clients to protect and leverage their IP as one of their most valuable assets.
Christina has received recognition as a self-made entrepreneur and thought leader within the Colorado and Utah legal communities. Christina was named one of the top 25 most influential young professionals in Colorado by ColoradoBiz Magazine in 2012, has been named to the Colorado Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars consecutively for the past nine years (2014 - 2022), and was listed among the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list in 2022.
And more than just a Nine-to-Fiver, Christina’s commitment to serving people translates to an extensive resume of volunteering, pro-bono, and non-profit work. Christina has served on the Board of Directors as Board Chair at The Gathering Place in Denver, and on the Board of Directors of the Colorado IP American Inns of Court. In the past, Christina has served as the Legal Advisor for the Rocky Mountain Division of the National Ski Patrol and was a ski patroller at Loveland Ski Area. Christina currently serves as a board member for Utah Lawyers for the Arts.
Having grown up in Park City, Utah, and a prior D1 Alpine Ski Racer, if you want to meet Christina in her free time, you’ll probably have to head to the mountain. Christina has a penchant for high alpine adventures - hiking, biking, climbing, camping - and often can be found in search of the perfect powder day somewhere remote in the Colorado Rockies, Wasatch Mountains, or venturing off-piste further away in Japan or South America.
Read more about Christina’s work on her Blog “The Accelerator Law Blog.”