Audrey Cooke focuses her practice on intellectual property matters. Before joining Alston & Bird, she worked as an analytical consultant with IBM, where she developed analytical tools, evaluated performance metrics, and collaborated with stakeholders across health care and clinical operations. She also conducted life sciences research involving RNA technologies and neurodegenerative diseases as a student research assistant with early-stage North Carolina biotechnology companies.
Audrey earned her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she was a symposium editor for the North Carolina Law Review. Audrey complemented her legal education with the North Carolina StartUp Law Clinic, where she was awarded the Jerry L. Wordsworth Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Student Award in recognition of her contributions to the clinic’s work serving entrepreneurs and early-stage companies.
Before law school, Audrey earned a joint B.S. in biomedical and health sciences engineering from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.