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Helen Baker
is senior counsel at Freeborn & Peters, practicing in the areas of labor and employment law, and employee benefits litigation. She obtained her law degree at Indiana |
 | Leonard A. Ferber is a partner in the Corporate Department of Katten Muchin Zavis Chicago office and is and co-chair of the firms Technology, E-Business and New Media Group. Leonard’s practice focuses on representing e-business companies, software developers, consulting firms and other technology-based companies in a variety of transactional matters, including strategic partnering arrangements and joint ventures, licensing and product distribution, acquisitions of technology and technology companies and software/technology development agreements. Among the Chicago-area technology companies Leonard has represented are: PLATINUM technology, Divine Interventures, Lante Corp., Blue Meteor, Telenisus Corp. and Geodesic Systems. Leonard, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s law school, is on the board of advisers of the Internet Executives Club. |
 | John Goebel is a partner in the Tech Ventures Group of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. His practice is concentrated in the venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities areas. John represents private companies as they secure venture capital and strategic investments and execute acquisition strategy. He counsels on an array of issues, including board and shareholder matters, equity-based compensation structures and licensing agreements. John also represents companies and underwriters in IPOs and other public equity and debt securities offerings, and he regularly counsels publicly-traded clients on their reporting obligations under the federal securities laws. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School. |
 | Juli Wilson Marshall is co-chair of Latham & Watkins Intellectual Property and Technology Group and is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property, Internet technology and e-commerce legal matters with clients running the gamut from start-ups to established Fortune 100 companies. Currently, she is representing companies in Internet copyright class actions, alleged Internet-related consumer fraud class actions, Web site disputes, software development disputes and technology insurance matters. Juli graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. She is a frequent speaker and author on technology, intellectual property and class action/complex litigation issues for such groups as Silicon Alley Reporter, Fulcrum, Practicing Law Institute, SEC Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, National Law Journal and International Quality and Productivity Center. |
 | Craig McCrohon a partner in the Chicago office of Freeborn & Peters, works extensively with companies regarding venture capital, intellectual property and corporate matters. He is a graduate of Harvard University and received his joint law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business. He also was a graduate student in law and economics at the London School of Economics. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and serves as president of the board of directors of the Technology Executives Roundtable of the Evanston/Northwestern University Research Park, and is a member of the board of directors of the Midwest Entrepreneur’s Forum. |
 | Victor Pascucci’s legal practice concentrates on litigation. Vic and his partner, Mark Powers, have designed and developed The Entrepreneurs’ Help Page (tannedfeet.com). The site provides more than 250 pages of legal, business and finance information for entrepreneurs. Additionally, The Entrepreneurs’ Help Page provides more than 200 free legal forms concerning all aspects of business transactions and development. |
 | Jean Marie R. Pechette serves as associate general counsel of GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. Previously, she was counsel with the Corporate/E-commerce/Information Technology Group of Sidley & Austin, where her practice focused on intellectual property and information technology transactions; including Web-enabled technology transfer and e-commerce; software licensing; development and distribution; intellectual property; and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures involving technology-based assets. Jean is graduate of Indiana University’s law school. |
 | Michael D. Rosenthal is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and has practiced at the firm for more than a decade. The focus of Mike’s practice is venture capital and early-stage companies, and he has represented venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs in a variety of transactions. Mike also specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities law and general corporate counseling. He has served as a mentor for entrepreneurs participating in the annual Illinois Venture Capital Conference and is now involved with the on-going Prairiefire Business Plan competition. Mike graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan’s law school. |
 | David Dan Schwalb is an associate at the Chicago law firm of Levin & Ginsburg Ltd. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. David’s areas of practice focus on business transactions, including corporate and technology matters. He represents software companies, Internet start-ups and “old economy” companies seeking to expand their presence in cyberspace. David has counseled various start-up companies that deal with initial issues arising from entity formation, financing, human resources planning and development of intellectual property. David has also represented established companies involved with acquisitions of technology and cyberspace assets and implementation of their e-commerce Web sites. |
 | Douglas Sylvester is an associate in the E-commerce/Information Technology Practice Group at Baker & McKenzie. His practice focuses on areas of emerging e-commerce law, including such issues as digital signatures, privacy laws affecting financial institutions, encryption, Web-hosting and development, and software licensing and distribution. Doug is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s law school; his course offerings have focused on international e-commerce and business structures. |
 | Pam Walter is a partner in the technology department of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. Pam focuses her practice on cyberlaw and e-business solutions, including negotiating joint venture and strategic partnering relationships, assisting clients in the protection and distribution of software, databases and multimedia products, and counseling with respect to related issues such as privacy and security. She has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and is a graduate of Northwestern University Law School. |
