David Adler

I have devoted the last 17 years of my professional life to helping entrepreneurs and creative professionals identify, protect and monetize their creative content and ideas and take advantage of the opportunities presented by today’s digital business platforms.

The motivation behind my practice stems from my experiences running the Entrepreneurial & Start-up Ventures Committee and the Media, Arts & Entertainment Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, as well as public speaking in the areas of intellectual property, information technology, privacy, security and social media.

Every forum meeting or presentation ended with in-depth questions from the audience. Since I rarely had time to answer these questions or provide any depth to my response, I publish @adlerlaw (adlerlaw.wordpress.com) a blog, and Ping®, an electronic newsletter, to share my knowledge, experience and skills and to educate creative professionals to be better consumers of legal services.

@adlerlaw is mostly focused on the protection and commercialization of ideas, usually through application of intellectual property law concepts such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets and publicity rights, and the legal risk and issues that arise from creative relationships with designers, manufacturers, distributors, ad agencies, retailers, and licensees.

My commitment to the creative arts community goes well beyond the traditional practice of law. I have been designated by my peers for five consecutive years as an Illinois SuperLawyer® in the areas of Intellectual Property and Entertainment & Media Law. I was an Adjunct Professor teaching Music Law at DePaul College of Law, formerly chaired the Chicago Bar Association's Media & Entertainment Law Committee and is currently a member of the Illinois State Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Committee. I created and taught a previously non-existent undergraduate course, Introduction to E-Business at Columbia College Chicago, where I also taught Entertainment law.