Jessica Baer

Adjunct Instructor

Jessica Baer is a practicing attorney specializing in health care and technology. She has experience in corporate in-house roles, private practice, and government service. She currently serves as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of InstyMeds, a company that manufactures automated physician dispensing equipment. In this role, she reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and oversees all legal matters affecting the company, including regulatory compliance and advocacy, contract negotiations, corporate governance, labor and employment issues, and litigation.

Before joining InstyMeds, Ms. Baer was the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Innovation Associates (d/b/a iA), a company specializing in automated pharmacy dispensing equipment and software. As the company’s first in-house attorney, she built its legal department and guided it through a period of transformative growth, including managing mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Baer previously served as the Director of Professional Regulation at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, overseeing the licensing and regulation of more than 1.1 million professionals across 70 industries, including health care. She also managed the division’s budget, personnel, legislative negotiations, and disciplinary decisions. Before her appointment as Director, she was the agency’s General Counsel.

Ms. Baer began her legal career at K&L Gates, where she practiced complex commercial litigation, internal investigations, and antitrust client counseling. She earned her J.D. (magna cum laude) from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. in English (cum laude with honors) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.