Counsel
Colgate-Palmolive
Julius Towers will be joining the Colgate-Palmolive legal team as Counsel, Trademarks & Copyrights. Previously, he was Senior Counsel (Intellectual Property) at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), in New York City, NY. His practice includes all aspects of nonpatent Intellectual Property, including trademarks, copyrights, anti-counterfeiting, and Internet law. In addition, Towers was the senior co-chair of the BMS Law Department Diversity Committee and served on the BMS GLBTA Affinity Group Leadership team. Prior to BMS, Towers was an associate in the Intellectual Property/ Outsourcing Practice Group of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, in NYC. Towers is a graduate of Florida State University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was the co-president of Penn Law Lambda, and currently serves on the Law School Alumni Society’s Board of Managers. Towers is a member of the New York Bar.