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Chisom Nwakama

Nwakama_Chisom

Chisom Nwakama

Associate

Boston + 1 617 526 6370

Chisom Nwakama focuses her practice on complex intellectual property matters with a specific focus on patents. She joined WilmerHale as a summer associate in 2023. 

During law school, Ms. Nwakama was a legal intern in the Intellectual Property Group at a large pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. She drafted and filed patent applications and conducted prior art and patentability searches. She served as a student counselor at the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic. She also worked as a legal extern at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. Before attending law school, she held multiple research assistant roles in physics and chemistry at a research group based in Nebraska and at her undergraduate university.

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, 2024

      Dean’s Scholar

      Extraordinary Pro Bono Service Award

      Pan Africa Summit Co-Coordinator, Black Law Students Association

      Production Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

      Production Editor, Journal of Law and Innovation

    • MBE, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2024

    • BS, Chemistry with minors in Biology, Mathematics and Philosophy, Creighton University, 2021

      summa cum laude

      Clare Boothe Luce Scholar

      CURAS Director’s Award for Leadership

  • Admissions

    • Massachusetts

    • Minnesota

    • US Patent and Trademark Office

Credentials

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