Adrienne Setsuko Finucane
Associate Attorney at Chapman Spingola, LLP
Creative Commercial and Intellectual Property Attorney w/ Special Interest in Tech Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Law
A creative and tenacious Associate Attorney in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation, I am pleased to be working with sharp attorneys and forward-thinking clients, from inventors and entrepreneurs to established companies with original and valuable IP. I aim to help my client businesses defeat legal obstacles so they can focus on the far more exciting task of further growth. Special areas of interest include legal tech solutions, A2J, data privacy and cybersecurity, legal frontiers in the software and alternative finance industries, and the interplay between technological growth, competition, and constitutional law.
Chapman Spingola, LLP
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Intellectual property and complex commercial litigation.
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Associate Attorney
Chapman Spingola, LLP
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Law Clerk
Chapman Spingola, LLP
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Summer Associate
Chicago-Kent Institute for Law, Science and Technology
Research Assistant for Professor Lori Andrews at Chicago-Kent Institute for Law, Science and Technology covering issues of data privacy, technology and law.
Chicago, IL
Research Assistant
Illinois Appellate Court, First District
Judicial Extern for Justice Bertina Lampkin of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.
Chicago, IL
Judicial Extern
Self-Employed
Sentencing mitigation support and case management in state and federal death penalty cases for mitigation specialists in Chicago and Evanston, IL. Appointed by a circuit judge in the Northern District of Illinois as a mitigation paralegal for a defendant in a RICO conspiracy case where the government sought the death penalty for those charged.
Chicago, IL
Capital Defense Mitigation Paralegal and Case Manager
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
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Organizing fenceline communities and industry workers to leverage testing data to prevent industrial accidents along the chemical corridor in southeast Louisiana and document the disparate effects of preventable hazards on communities in the regions as a function of race and class.
Greater New Orleans Area
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Outreach Coordinator, Field Manager
Workplace Flexibility 2010 - Georgetown Law Center
Executive Research Assistant
Doctor of Law - JD
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Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
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B.A.
-Overall emphasis on international migration and related political, health and social issues.  
-Field research in Summer 2008 on the combined impact of local grassroots movements and large-scale NGOs on water politics in China, using the Nujiang River region in Southwest China as a case study.
Government with International Relations focus
Cornell University
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