Reinhart Patent Attorney Bridge Selected for Inclusion on List of Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars

ROCKFORD – Jerome M. Janzer, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (Reinhart) announced that attorney Jeremy R. Bridge has been selected for inclusion on the 2011 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.

Super Lawyers Rising Stars names the top young lawyers in Illinois as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. All Illinois Rising Stars are 40 or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.

Bridge is a registered patent attorney in the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. He serves a wide range of business clients. His background in mechanical engineering allows him to understand the special intellectual needs and challenges of clients that produce consumer and industrial products. Bridge earned a B.S.M.E., with highest honors, from the University of Illinois-College of Engineering and his J.D., summa cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law.

Super Lawyers identifies the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Minneapolis-based Law & Politics, through a selection process in which every attorney in the state who has been licensed to practice for five years or more receives a ballot. Attorneys are asked to nominate the best lawyers they have personally observed in action—whether as opposing counsel or co-counsel, or through other first-hand observation in the courtroom.