Alison Aubry Richards has been recognized by IAM Magazine as one of the top 300 IP strategists in the world. She is an accomplished patent litigator with successes including at the Federal Circuit and in PTAB IPR trials. She has extensive expertise with licensing, IPR proceedings, and advising litigation funding entities on investments in patent cases. Alison has testified as an expert on patent jury trials. She frequently works to monetize patents in the mobile phone industry, including standard essential patents (LTE, 4G, 5G, etc.) She is a partner at Global IP Law Group, LLC. Alison graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003 and began her legal career at WilmerHale and Kirkland & Ellis. Alison is a founder of Chicago Women in IP (ChiWIP).