Summary: Bill Price in an attorney with the law firm of Chester Price & Smith and a professor of high technology and entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Bill covers a number of different topics relating to the due diligence process and some of the specific items buyers need to be aware of when buying a business. His business law and high technology entrepreneurship classes have taught graduate students in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, and Law how to Source and negotiate venture and other finance for high technology and biotech deals. Mr. Price has also been the faculty advisor for several award-winning student inter-professional research project teams which did work for the International Engineering Consortium, General Motors, and Motorola on topics including wireless and mobile commerce; voice markup languages; consumer extranets; project communications intranets; data access through wireless devices, and e-business design. He teaches courses in e-commerce and in general business law, including organizational design. Private law clients have included organizations ranging from individual retail store owners to Fortune 50 companies, for business organization, successful legal briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court and other venues, and other negotiations. His defense work has appeared in The National Interest, in El Conquistador, and in various military history venues. He is a member of the board of the Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum, and a member of the Chicago Biotech Network.
