As Assistant Counsel, Blake supports BLS & Co.’s in-house counsel and the entire team across a full range of legal and related activities, including work on diverse contracts and business matters, as well as project-related research and analysis of statutes and ordinances, as well as regulations and policies affecting clients’ diverse interests. He also supports BLS & Co.’s work on legislative and regulatory initiatives.
After serving as a BLS & Co. intern in 2010, Blake went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Montreal, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
For a broad summary of the structure of the CHIPS Act, please reference BLS & Co.'s earlier piece which summarizes the various funding “buckets” under the Act. This article focuses on the funding opportunities presented by the largest of those buckets, the ~$50B in funding allocated to the CHIPS for America Fund, to be administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) by way of several funding opportunities.