About
A future IP lawyer with the technical background that most of his peers don’t have.
Most law students who want to practice patent law need to spend a year after graduation studying for the Patent Bar. I don’t. My aerospace engineering degree from Illinois makes me eligible to sit for it now.
I came to law school with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a semester of preliminary aircraft design at ISAE-Supaéro in Toulouse, where I worked alongside Airbus engineers. Before law school, I was an Engineering & Venture Associate at Zulu Pods, where I helped pitch an aerospace lubrication technology to more than 800 investors and supported a $3M seed raise — getting a ground-floor view of how IP strength shapes valuation.
At Chicago-Kent, I’m pursuing the IP Law Certificate, served as an Associate Editor on the Journal of Intellectual Property, and was elected Vice President — and now Treasurer — of The Decalogue Society for Lawyers. I’ve made the Dean’s List three times and earned the CALI Award for top performance in Legal Writing III.
Two years into my clerkship at Greer, Burns & Crain — a 40-attorney Chicago IP boutique with Fortune 500 and multinational clients — I’ve drafted patent applications, argued amendments before the USPTO, coordinated with foreign associates across Europe and Asia, and authored Right-to-Use opinion letters that informed real client decisions. I’m looking for a firm or in-house team where engineering fluency and IP practice both matter.