Elizabeth Poland Andujar is an associate attorney at the Atlanta office. As part of the litigation team, Elizabeth focuses her practice on various aspects of intellectual property and commercial litigation including pre-litigation matters, preparing litigation documents, managing discovery, legal research and writing, and other trial-related work. Elizabeth has worked extensively on cases involving various practice areas, including intellectual property law, contract law, and antitrust law before federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Additionally, Elizabeth has successfully negotiated and drafted several favorable settlement agreements on behalf of clients.

While attending law school at the University of Georgia. Elizabeth served as the Senior Notes Editor to the Journal of International and Comparative Law. In 2020, Elizabeth won the University of Georgia Law School's Negotiation Competition and joined the school's Negotiation Team. Elizabeth also served as a legal extern for the Honorable Judge William M. Ray II in the Northern District of Georgia and for the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. Additionally, Elizabeth served as a legal intern at Bates & Bates where she assisted with trademark litigation matters.

While in law school, Elizabeth earned the Louis B. Sohn Award for Academic Excellence in International Law and two CALI Awards for achieving the highest exam score in her Public International Law and Ethics legal courses. Additionally, Elizabeth earned the “Best Draft” award at the Transactional LawMeet hosted by the University of Missouri at Kansas City where she represented the buyer in a complex stock purchase transaction and was tasked with drafting an amendment to the stock purchase agreement. Elizabeth graduated the University of Georgia School of Law in May 2021, cum laude, and began working with Bates & Bates immediately on trademark litigation matters. She is a member of the Georgia bar.

Prior to working with Bates & Bates, Elizabeth worked with several arts organizations in Atlanta and its surrounding areas where she dedicated her career to empowering and supporting artists and musicians in both the creation and distribution of their original works through fundraising, event planning, and community programming.