Katherine N. Addison
Jeffrey L. Clark
Jeffrey M. Drake
Jeffery N. Fairchild
Stephen D. Geimer
Matthew R. Hooper
Martin L. Katz
F. William McLaughlin
Dean A. Monco
John S. Mortimer
Paul M. Odell
Richard S. Phillips
Mark V. Polyakov
Peter J. Shakula
Joel E. Siegel
Steven F. Weinstock
Adam Wolek
Joseph C. Zucchero

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Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., with honors, 2009,
     Certificate in Intellectual Property Law.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S., 2004,
      Thesis: Comparative Studies of Expressed Protochlorophyllide
      Oxidoreductase (POR) A, B, C.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., 2002,
      Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology option of Crop Sciences.

Email: awolek@woodphillips.com

Adam is an attorney at Wood Phillips and is involved with various aspects of patent and trademark procurement and enforcement, licensing, trademark and patentability opinions and searches, and Freedom to Operate analyses. His litigation experience includes involvement with patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and commercial dispute cases.

Previously, Adam worked as an R&D scientist in the New Products Division of a medium-sized biotech company. While there, Adam developed an innovative method of detecting protein-DNA interactions for a Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Kit, and also developed numerous monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. He also co-authored an article in the journal Genes & Development that compared mutations in chromatin structural proteins. Prior to that, Adam worked in the Lab of Plant Biochemistry and Photobiology at the University of Illinois as a graduate research assistant studying enzymatic reaction rates, transforming bacteria, and purifying proteins and organic substrates. He has also worked in microbial genetics and plant pathology labs.

Adam graduated with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he also received a Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, and was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Strategies in Intellectual Property. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property, President of the Intellectual Property Law Society at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Captain of Kent's 2008 Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court team. He was also a recipient of a Chicago IP Colloquium fellowship in 2008, and a C.A and C.C. Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research stipend in 2002, 2003 and 2004.