By Evan Goldberg Following a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area to learn about legal technology, startups, large companies, and how innovation is changing operations of all of these entities, our MSL Entrepreneurship Team Project students have written blog posts about each company we visited and entrepreneur with whom we met. This week, we’ll publish […]
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Innovation, Technology, and Law in Silicon Valley: 2019 Northwestern Law MSL Entrepreneurship Trip – #NLawEnTP
By Dan Linna (@DanLinna) & Evan Goldberg (@evanmgoldberg) Each of the last several years, teams of Northwestern JD, LLM, and Master of Science in Law (MSL) students have spent Spring Break in Silicon Valley studying innovation, technology, and law. This year, ten MSL students and one JD student have made the trip to San Francisco […]
MSL Student Perspectives: Amy Garber (MSL ’15)
Amy Garber (MSL ’15) was already a successful patent agent when she joined the MSL program; she came to the MSL to learn more about how intellectual property assets impact business value. In the MSL program, she learned that and so much more – Amy met a like-minded team and went on to co-found Hazel […]
MSL Alumnus Steven Hansen, Winner of 2018 HealthTECH Startup Competition
Each year, Insight Product Development hosts a HealthTECH Startup competition, which aims to cultivate entrepreneurship in the healthcare industry and connect corporations with early-stage companies. We are proud to congratulate the 2018 1st place winner, Odin Technologies, a company founded by MSL Alumnus Steven Hansen! Odin Technologies is focused on developing a wearable diagnostic device […]
DPELC-MSL Speaker Series: Jan Reed
For the last DPELC-MSL Speaker Series presentation of the semester, students heard from Jan Reed, JD ’84. Reed is currently a board member of AngioDynamics, Inc., Stepan Co., and Life365, Inc., as well as an adjunct professor here at Northwestern’s Entrepreneurship Law Center. She is also notably the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel & […]
MSL Student Perspectives: Laurelle Banta (MSL ’17)
After studying engineering at Northwestern University, Laurelle Banta (MSL ’17) wanted to learn more about intellectual property and how to protect the ideas she was coming up with in the lab. She didn’t know she was also about to become an entrepreneur. As an MSL student, Laurelle took the NUvention Energy course, met a team […]
Megan Kashner on Social Impact
Professor Megan Kashner presented at the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series last Tuesday to a room full of students at the intersection of business and law. Kashner serves as the Director of Social Impact at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She is also the founder and CEO of Benevolent, a platform that invites individual givers to fill […]
How Teddy Scott Entered the Industry
Northwestern Law alumnus Teddy Scott joined the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series last week to tell the story of how he went from STEM student to CEO of PharmaCann, LLC. Scott led students through a brief history of the commercial marijuana industry in the United States and then shared an overview of his thirty years of experience. […]
Drew Hinkes Believes in Blockchain
Drew Hinkes has no trouble explaining Blockchain. Mr. Hinkes is co-founder and General Counsel of Athena Blockchain, a start-up investment bank focused on tokenized securities. He’s also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern Business School and the NYU School of Law, where he co-teaches “Digital Currency, Blockchains, and the Future of the Financial Services […]
Nick Colvin on the City of Chicago’s Innovative Economic Initiatives
The DPELC-MSL Speaker Series kicked of this year’s program by focusing on the city we call home: Chicago. Nick Colvin, Senior Advisor and General Counsel for the Office of the City Treasurer, gave a presentation on the city’s current economic climate, the underlying issues it faces, and the forward-thinking initiatives that are hoping to address […]