Criminal Law

• Fraud
• Embezzlement

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our extensive experience and grasp of IP issues and their effect on the client’s strategic goals allows us to effectively represent our clients and ensure that they maximize return on their IP portfolio. For example, we perform due diligence work and negotiations for mergers and acquisitions to assure the best possible price for your IP assets. Wood Phillips attorneys have worked with all kinds of medical device companies, including start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, emerging companies, and independent doctors.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  The Wood Phillips practice of intellectual property law is particularly notable for lawyers with important experience on the client side of the table. Among them are four former patent counsels of major corporations, and former examiners at the US Patent and Trademark Office. This added dimension enhances our business sense. Our attorneys respect each client's bottom line as if it were our own — which in a sense it is.

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Examples of services performed: Thomas has represented the FDIC in multiple suits arising from several Illinois failed banks; served as regional trademark enforcement attorney for a major auto manufacturer; represented a Chicago newspaper publisher in multiple first amendment and trade regulation matters; served as general counsel to a Chicago inner city hospital; successfully defended a Pekin Illinois hospital in class action litigation over "reasonable charges"; successfully defended a major Chicago bank against class action fraud charges as well as separate customer account manipulations and embezzlement suits; counseled a Florida based international conglomerate on copyright and trademark issues; both prosecuted and defended restrictive covenants and trade secret claims for public companies as well as private individuals; counseled mid-sized Illinois manufacturing companies on their employment matters, distributor relations, and intellectual property protections; defended a French turbine manufacturer in dam construction litigation; served as Special Assistant Attorney General to defend an Illinois state chartered university in its convocation center construction litigation claims; prosecuted and defended multiple lawsuits involving the Carmack Amendment, consumer fraud and also executive fiduciary duties for an international transportation company; assisted a private not for profit Chicago high school in structuring its philanthropic missions; served in a pro bono capacity on the board and as counsel for a 501(c)(3) global medical mission organization.