Maria Speth is the Intellectual Property Law Department Chair at Jaburg Wilk.  She is a frequent speaker on intellectual property law, internet law, trademark and tradename law and is the author of the book,  Protect Your Writings: A Legal Guide for Authors. Maria practices both intellectual property law and commercial litigation.  She represents clients throughout the United States. Her practice focuses on assisting businesses in protecting their trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing agreements, information technology, domains, and other intellectual property through preventative measures to avoid disputes and through aggressive measures when disputes arise. She also has expertise in advising clients on Internet issues, social media in the workplace and other rapidly evolving technologies.

She is a key player in recent successes defending a controversial website in multiple lawsuits against it, dealing with complex intellectual property and Internet issues. In each case she forced the matter to be dropped, dismissed, or settled with the other side paying damages to her client.

Maria has presented seminars for the State Bar of Arizona, the Arizona Small Business Association, the Investors' Association of Arizona, the National Business Institute, and for Lorman Education Services on intellectual property, internet and trademark protection. She is on the faculty of the internationally acclaimed CEO Space, is an active member of the International Trademark Association and is a member the internet committee of INTA. Maria is the chair of the Executive Committee of the E-Commerce and Technology Section of the Arizona State Bar.  Additionally, Maria has been a guest speaker on television and radio shows addressing intellectual property protection topics.

She is active in the community serving on the Board of Directors of The Institute of Harmonic Science and Safe Haven, Inc., a non-profit community redevelopment organization. Maria is also active with the business community as a member of the National Association of Women Executives and Arizona Women’s Golf Association.