Jamal M. Edwards has joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department’s IP Litigation Practice Group. He brings substantial legal and management experience to Honigman and will be located in the firm’s Detroit office. Honigman’s IP practice serves clients locally, nationally and internationally.
Edwards has most recently assisted, as an executive consultant, successful turnarounds for two start-up technology companies – one in health care and one in financial services. He also successfully led a turnaround for a federally qualified health center in Chicago, where he served as CEO.
He was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago for several years, focusing his practice on IP, particularly in patent and trade secret litigation and counseling private equity investors and their technology holding companies. He previously was regional counsel for the IBM Corporation in Chicago. Prior to practicing law, he was an executive with Equifax, Inc., where he led important aspects of its risk management and card services businesses, including an internal automated locations services startup division.
Edwards earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A., cum laude, from Morehouse College. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for Judge Roger L. Gregory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, and for Judge Raymond A. Jackson in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk. He is licensed to practice law in Michigan and Illinois.
