|
Pam Walter is a partner at the firm. She assists clients in addressing information technology and e-business issues and issues involving patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. She focuses on cyberlaw and e-business solutions, including negotiating joint venture and strategic partnering relationships, protecting and distributing software, databases and multimedia products and counseling on related issues such as Web site development, privacy and security.
Pam founded Gardner Carton Douglas LLP's Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property practice, and served for six years on the firm's management committee.
She is recognized among Chambers USA's 2006 "Leaders in their Field" for Technology and is named among Illinois’ Super Lawyers in Intellectual Property in 2006. Pam has also been named to the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network in Computer and Technology Law. She has been named to Best Lawyers in America ® for her Intellectual Property/Technology practice and Corporate practice.
Pam is a member of the I-Tech Association, SIM and the American Bar Foundation. She is immediate past president of the board of Chicago Shakespeare Theater and a past president of the board of the Metropolitan Planning Council, and remains on the executive committees of both organizations. She is also on the executive committee of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a member of the board of overseers of Chicago Kent School of Law and a former board member of the Field Museum and The Latin School of Chicago (former board president). Pam is also a member of The Chicago Network, an organization of senior-level professional women.
In General. Pam received her J.D. degree from Northwestern University, her master's degree from London School of Economics and her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College. She also clerked for Hon. Walter J. Cummings of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. | 