Jill specializes in legal research and analysis in all aspects of intellectual property law. She has analyzed all Federal Circuit patent opinions since the Federal Circuit's creation in 1982, and has given numerous presentations to the Kansas City and St. Louis IP bar associations reviewing the development of Federal Circuit patent law.
Jill has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law in partnership tax and intellectual property law. Former students include Hovey Williams attorneys Tom Luebbering, Andrew Colombo and Cheryl Burbach.
- LEGAL EDUCATION
- University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law,
J.D., 1979, with distinction - Bench and Robe
- Phi Delta Phi
- UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
- University of Missouri - Kansas City, B.A.
English, 1975 - MEMBERSHIPS
- American Bar Association
- Missouri Bar Association
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- AIPLA
- Association for Women Lawyers of Greater
Kansas City - Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- BAR ADMISSIONS
- Missouri, 1979
- Kansas, 2007
- Tax Court, 1979
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1987
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2001
