Mr. Janke is a litigator whose practice is concentrated in intellectual property, media, and technology; business and construction litigation; commercial finance and secured lending; and credit data. His clients represent a variety of industries including media, technology, software, emerging company, construction, real estate, marine, health care, and heavy equipment.
Mr. Janke is a member of the Council for the Louisiana State Law Institute and also serves as a member of various committees. His record of legal scholarship is extensive, having published several law review articles in comparative law and law reform.
Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology
Mr. Janke has extensive experience in trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, media, and right of publicity cases. He manages several large trademark and copyright portfolios and also works to secure early intellectual property assets for emerging companies. For several of his media clients, he has extensive experience with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and regularly navigates online legal issues including domain name disputes such as through the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.
Business and Construction Litigation
Mr. Janke has handled several complicated business litigation matters, representing clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in judge and jury trials and injunction proceedings. In construction litigation, Mr. Janke regularly represents engineering, procurement, and construction companies, especially program managers.
Commercial Finance and Secured Lending
Mr. Janke has extensive experience in equipment finance and commercial lending and has worked to recover or restructure tens of millions of dollars of secured debt through commercial foreclosures and bankruptcies.
Credit Data Exchanges
Mr. Janke is outside counsel to two national credit data exchanges handling a variety of legal issues for each, including contracting, data privacy and security, and intellectual property.