Dale Weiford

Dale A. Weiford is a Las Vegas-based business and finance associate at Fennemore, serving businesses throughout Nevada in business and finance matters.

Dale’s experience includes assisting the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s legal department with venue, production, and social media agreements, conducting due diligence for significant transactions and contracts, and reviewing legal assets involving trademark and copyright rights. He also prepared trademark and copyright applications, addressed legal asset usage, and supported the certification of digitized media.

Dale also has experience with document identification, analysis, and transfer in the mortgage industry. During his work with Panorama Mortgage Group, LLC, he collaborated with third-party custodians and other entities to improve document digitization and retrieval processes, helping make business records accessible and organized for efficient use.

Dale earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was a Chancellor’s Scholar and participated in the Vanderbilt Black Law Student Association. He earned his B.A. in Law, History and Society (LHS), with minors in political science and Human Organizational Development (HOD), from Vanderbilt University. Dale is conversational in Hebrew.

• J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Chancellor’s Scholar
  • Sara J. Finley Law and Business Scholar
  • Vanderbilt Alumni Association
  • Vanderbilt Black Law Student Association
• B.A., Vanderbilt University
  • Miriam Halachmi Prize for Excellence in Modern Hebrew
  • 2023 Winner of the Avery Leiserson Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper in Political Science
  • Intramural Basketball
  • Vanderbilt Radio Show Guest Speaker

• 2023 Winner of the Avery Leiserson Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper in Political Science

• Author, “Meta Faces Copyright Claims Over AI Training Data: Survives Motion to Dismiss Stage,” Firm Publication, March 24, 2025

• Nevada

• Hebrew, Conversational