Alumni Spotlight - Chicago Office

We are proud to celebrate the retirement of Ed Gamson, a Chicago-based senior counsel and former partner in our healthcare and life sciences industry group and intellectual property litigation practice group. With a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a strong background in laboratory research, he has brought a scientist’s insight to intellectual property law.

His ability to translate complex scientific concepts into effective patent strategies has benefited firm clients across a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and advanced polymers.

Check out a brief Q&A below, and join us in wishing Ed all the best in his well-deserved retirement.

When did you join Husch Blackwell (or legacy HB firm?)

I joined the firm predecessor, Welsh & Katz, officially on January 1, 1994, but it was actually in December of 1993.

Do you have a favorite case or work memory from your time at the firm?

I am not a litigator, so I have no favorite case to discuss. I have been a very fortunate person in that I have spent 12 years after college getting a graduate degree in chemistry, working as a bench chemist, and then as a post-doctoral fellow while I went to law school at night.

I was one of those guys with a slide rule on his belt who walked around the Tech Institute at Northwestern, where some of the non-science majors who had to take their lectures in the building called us “Tech Weenies.” I have had the privilege to work with scientists doing cutting edge research at several clients, including a Nobel Laureate and several members of the National Academy of Sciences, have helped them through the patent process, and helped make some very wealthy.