200 East Saint Julian Street
PO Box 9848
Savannah, GA 31412-0048
Tel 912.236.0261
Fax 912.236.4936
Rachel Fields has broad experience assisting clients with business disputes and transactions, including involving intellectual property, contracts, corporate governance, real estate, condominiums and community associations, fiduciary duties, and trusts and estates.
She assists clients with clearing, prosecuting, and maintaining trademarks and provides strategic brand and trademark counseling and portfolio management. Rachel also advises clients on copyright law, including issues of ownership, validity, registration, and infringement. Her experience also includes handling intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution in courts and other tribunals. She routinely prepares and negotiates copyright and trademark agreements and licenses.
Rachel counsels companies related to distributorships, non-profit corporate governance, condominiums, and property owners associations. She also represents fiduciaries in disputes and other court proceedings involving trusts, estates, guardianships, and conservatorships
Professional Activities
Rachel is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and has been active throughout her career. She currently serves as Communications Chair of the Intellectual Property Section. Previously, she was on the board of the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division and also co-chaired the Leadership Academy and the Intellectual Property Committee.
In addition, she has served as an adjunct professor at the Savannah Law School.
Rachel is admitted to practice in all Georgia state courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Community Involvement & Honors
Actively involved with her community and nonprofit organizations, Rachel is a graduate of Leadership Savannah and serves on the board of directors of the Savannah Book Festival, where she served as president and chair from 2021 through 2024. She has also served on the boards of the Savannah Philharmonic and Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity, where she was president.
Rachel holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by the Fulton County Daily Report as a “40 under 40” On the Rise Attorney and as one of Savannah’s GenerationNEXT Rising Stars of Business. She has been named a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star and a Georgia Super Lawyer and was recognized by Georgia Trend Magazine as a Legal Elite for Intellectual Property Law.
Rachel earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served on the Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Theatre from Winthrop University, where she graduated cum laude.
University of Georgia School of Law: J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2007
Winthrop University: B.A., cum laude, 2001
Martindale-Hubbell: AV Rated
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Georgia Super Lawyers: Business Litigation, 2025
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.
Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star: Business Litigation, 2010 & 2016-2019
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.
Georgia Trend Magazine Legal Elite: 2018
Georgia Trend Magazine’s annual listing of Georgia’s top attorneys, selected by their peers. The list includes eight practice areas: business law; personal injury litigation; criminal law; labor and employment; taxes, estates and trusts; bankruptcy and creditors’ rights; family law; and general practice/trial law.
Fulton County Daily Report’s On the Rise Attorney: 2015
The Fulton County Daily Report publishes an elite list of “On the Rise” Attorneys each year, recognizing 40 of the state’s leading lawyers under the age of 40. Winners are nominated and selected based on their contributions to law in Georgia.
GenerationNEXT: Savannah’s Rising Stars of Business, 2015
In their annual GenerationNEXT: Savannah’s Rising Stars of Business competition, Savannah Magazine and Business in Savannah recognize local business and community leaders under the age of 40. The winners are nominated and selected based upon their business accomplishments and humanitarian efforts.
Georgia
February 21, 2024
By Rachel Young Fields, as published by TheNewswire.com The start of a new year often brings discussion of the “public domain,” because in the United States on January 1 (or…
August 16, 2017
By Rachel Young Fields, special to Business in Savannah A power of attorney is a legal document that grants authority to an individual (the agent or attorney-in-fact) to act on…
May 16, 2012
By Rachel Young Fields, published on May 16, 2012, in Business in Savannah. As e-commerce expands and access to original work on the Internet increases, the need for businesses to…
Intellectual Property Concerns for Filmmakers
Presented to Savannah College of Art and Design documentarian students in May 2013 by Rachel Fields with co-presenter Benjamin Karpf.
The first annual Savannah Logistics Lunch was held at the Embassy Suites Savannah Airport on August 18, 2015. Presented by HunterMaclean and the Center for Innovation in Logistics, the Logistics Lunch…
February 14, 2025
As published by Savannah CEO HunterMaclean, a business law firm with offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island, was recently honored with the selection of 12 attorneys as 2025 Georgia…
February 13, 2019
HunterMaclean, a leading business law firm with offices in Savannah and Brunswick, was recently honored with the selection of eleven attorneys as 2019 Georgia Super Lawyers and three attorneys as…
December 5, 2018
HunterMaclean is honored to announce that six attorneys were recently recognized as 2018 Legal Elite by Georgia Trend. Georgia Trend, a statewide business publication, recently published its annual issue honoring…
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