Lawrence Husick

Lawrence Husick has thirty-five years of experience as a chemist, technology consultant, computer system designer, software author, and company founder, as well as thirty-one years of experience as an intellectual property lawyer. This diverse background gives him a unique perspective on the issues of management and innovation.

He spent the early part of his career as a chemist in industry and as a systems designer working on computer hardware and software projects for corporate clients, and for government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. He is a partner in Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, an intellectual property law firm in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches Management of Innovation in the Whiting School’s Masters in Engineering Management program and in the Krieger School’s Masters in Biotechnology program. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he serves as a co-director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism.

Husick was a co-founder and was both the corporate counsel and systems architect of Infonautics, Inc., a very early Internet search firm, which launched a natural language search system in 1992. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Environmental Chemistry from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.