Zick Rubin has practiced publishing and media, copyright, trademark, and higher education law for the past 35 years. He drafts and negotiates publishing, collaboration, literary agent, and licensing agreements; advises educational, scientific, and cultural organizations on intellectual property issues; devises strategies for copyright and trademark protection; and helps his clients resolve intellectual property disputes, including AI matters. A former psychology professor at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, Zick is a textbook and trade book author. He is an active member of the  Text and Academic Authors Association and has made many presentations on publishing  and trademark issues to meetings of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and other groups of lawyers and authors.

Zick has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the field of intellectual property and is included in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Education Law. Before joining the Archstone Law Group in 2019, Zick was a partner in the law firm of Rubin & Ulrich, LLC. Before that, Zick was a member of the litigation and business law departments of the Boston law firms Palmer & Dodge and Hill & Barlow.

Zick received a B.A. from Yale University, a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Levin H. Campbell, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. His articles on publishing, copyright, trademark, and other legal topics have been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, National Law Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, and many other publications.   Zick’s columns on the lighter side of the law are compiled in his book How the Internet Tried to Kill Me – and Other Startling Pieces. For a free copy, send an email to Zick at zrubin@archstonelaw.com.