Jill MacAlpine is a partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP in the Washington D.C. office. Dr. MacAlpine received a J.D. from George Washington University Law School with highest honors in 2003, and received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1999. Jill's practice includes patent litigation, counseling, and prosecution, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical areas. Dr. MacAlpine has written and lectured on diverse patent law issues and is a permanent faculty member of the Patent Resource Group's "Chemical Patent Practice," a comprehensive U.S. chemical patent law course taught multiple times a year.