When students are admitted to the MSL program, we provide a list of recommended reading – books that we feel will help prepare students to study law. You can review the list here; you’ll see a mix of law-related titles, books related to skills development, and books with an interdisciplinary focus. Most students pick and […]
Month: July 2020
MSL Program Featured on Legal Evolution Blog
One of the companies that has really bought into the value of MSL training is VillageMD, a quickly growing provider of primary care services across the US. VillageMD has hired multiple graduates of the MSL program. In the words of VillageMD General Counsel Wendy Rubas: “The Northwestern MSLs have a solid grounding in law, so […]
MSL Alumni Profile: Kyle M. Pikula (MSL ’19) Patent Engineer: Life Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, Cardinal Intellectual Property
My work at Cardinal IP focuses on the prior art searching stage of the patent prosecution process; I analyze potential claims of clients’ inventions and explore prior art that may invalidate an invention under 35 U.S.C. §102, Novelty and 35 U.S.C. §103, Non-Obviousness. In short, I use a variety of databases and research tools in an attempt to find, […]
Laurelle Banta (MSL ’18) and NUMiX Materials Win Inaugural U.S. Bank Cleantech Inclusion Award
MSL alumna Laurelle Banta (MSL ’18) (second from right in above picture) came to the MSL program after graduating from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, where she studied mechanical engineering, with a focus on materials and thermodynamics. Laurelle was interested in learning more about intellectual property and how to protect the ideas she was coming […]
Professor Dan Rodriguez on ‘The Virus and the Law’
Professor Daniel B. Rodriguez, the Harold Washington Professor at the Law School, recently teamed up with Newton N. Minow, Former Chair of FCC, to discuss their shared belief that the law and fair administration of justice will defeat the pandemic. To read more of their assessment, visit The Virus and the Law. Professor Rodriguez served […]