Alex Bruening is an Associate Attorney at Banner Witcoff since July 2019, specializing in intellectual property law. Prior experience includes summer associate roles at Haynes and Boone, LLP, and Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., where responsibilities encompassed writing patent applications and conducting patentability studies among other tasks. Alex also served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable L. Scott Coogler at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, assisting with drafting judicial opinions and legal memoranda. With a background in engineering as a Project Engineer at IC Energy Solutions and an internship at Kiewit, Alex possesses extensive technical knowledge complemented by additional training in entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School Online. Alex holds a Juris Doctor from The University of Alabama School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.