John Marshall School of Law (LLM in Intellectual Property Law), with high honors, 1988
Chicago Kent College of Law – JD with high honors, 1978
DePaul University – MBA with distinction, and high honors, 1975
Northeastern Illinois University, with high honors – BA, 1974

U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District of Illinois (including Trial Bar)
U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Illinois; Illinois Supreme Court

International Trademark Association
American Bar Association
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association

Mr. Ehrlich is an active participant with many professional and civic organizations. He is a well-known lecturer and author of intellectual property topics. He is the co-author of “Cases and Materials on the Misuse and Antirust Aspects of Intellectual Property Law” for the John Marshall Law School. Additionally, Mr. Ehrlich has presented before Fortune 500 and other publicly and closely-held companies, trade associations and bar associations.

Burton S. Ehrlich is a partner at Ladas & Parry. Throughout his career of over 25 years, Mr. Ehrlich has helped clients address issues in all phases of intellectual property legal matters, including litigation and adversarial proceedings in the United States Patent & Trademark Office. He has counseled foreign and domestic clients and litigated compex patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, advertising, franchising, licensing and antitrust matters. Before joining Ladas & Parry, Mr. Ehrlich was a managing partner at Brezina and Ehrlich where he practised for over 11 years, and later, he was a partner at Arnstein & Lehr where he was the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Department.