The Law Offices of JAMAL M EDWARDS PC

159 N Sagamon, Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60607
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280 N Old Woodward, Suite 100
Birmingham, MI 48009
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713 Caroline St, Suite C
Key West, FL 33040

Jamal focuses his legal practice on business litigation and transactions, real estate, estate planning, copyright & trademark brand protection, and healthcare. He has represented major international and Fortune 500 companies for nearly 25 years. He is now turning that expertise where it is needed most by representing and advising entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses (including MBEs & WBEs), nonprofits, and start-ups.

Adding to his value as a trusted counsellor, Jamal has had a distinguished business career, including having held two executive positions at Equifax, Inc. He has also been a CEO 4 times, including in law, healthcare, real estate, and a tech startup. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for Atlas Technology Solutions, Inc. (www.atlashxm.com), where he helped them close a $200M Series B round of financing, exiting just over a year later. Before his board service, he had served as the company's outside general counsel, including assisting in seed and Series A financing rounds.

In 2017, Jamal co-founded a boutique law firm with four other co-founders, which now has approximately 25 lawyers and continues to operate today in multiple states. He served as managing partner for several years and helped earn the firm recognition by U.S. News as a “Best Law Firm” 3 years after its founding. He continues to collaborate on select matters with EM3 and several of the other firms he’s been a partner at.

Jamal is also a licensed Managing Real Estate Broker in Illinois and Michigan, and is a licensed Title Agent in Illinois.

Jamal has repeatedly been recognized as a Super Lawyer® since 2020, was a “Rising Star” before that, and has received numerous other national legal awards and accolades from Law Dragon publishing, Leading Lawyers, Lawyers of Distinction, and the National Black Lawyers, who, in 2016, named him to their Top 40 Under 40 and to named him a “Top 100 Lawyer.”

In 2011, Crain’s Chicago Business named Jamal to its coveted top “40 under 40” list for his business and legal leadership, and he has received several prestigious awards for his work in law, healthcare, business, real estate, and public relations/crisis communications. Modern Counsel Magazine profiled him in 2018 for his lean approach to the practice of law, and he has been profiled by the NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Detroit, and other notable publications for several past leadership roles.

Prior to leaving “Big Law,” Mr. Edwards was a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and a partner in the Detroit office of Honigman LLP. He also previously served as a regional counsel to IBM Corporation.

Mr. Edwards has served on a variety of nonprofit boards, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for One Hope United, Inc., which provides foster care and residential treatment services to children in Illinois and Florida. He remains actively engaged in civic, political, and philanthropic endeavors, locally and nationally.

After graduating with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School with distinction, Jamal clerked for the Hon. Raymond A. Jackson, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and for the Hon. Roger L. Gregory, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, a former Chief Judge of the Court.

Mr. Edwards received his B.S. cum laude from Morehouse College in 1998. While in law school, Jamal was the Executive Editor of the Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review and a Semi-Finalist in the 77th Annual Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition, in addition to winning several other prestigious moot court and mock trial competitions, locally and nationally.

Jamal holds the very distinct title of "Olympian" as he was an Olympic Torchbearer in the 1996 Centennial U.S. Games, and carried the torch through downtown Detroit, which is his hometown, with luminaries like Aretha Franklin, a former Detroit police chief, and the legendary ABC7 TV anchor Carmen Harlan.

Still, his proudest title and accomplishment is "DAD" to his nearly-adult son.