Steven Chester, former Michigan Department of Environmental Quality director, has joined the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner LLP. Chester will work in the firm’s environmental regulation practice. Chester left the DEQ in early January after the merger of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the DEQ. Before his work with the DEQ Chester [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
James Chapman, who established and managed Nixon Peabody’s Palo Alto office, has moved to Foley & Lardner in Silicon Valley. Chapman has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and securities law and has been involved in over 200 mergers, acquisitions and finance transactions. He also represents emerging growth companies and investors and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
Amar Thakur, who was the co-chair of Sheppard Mullin’s IP practice group, has jumped to Foley & Lardner, bringing one other attorney with him. Thakur said that Foley’s larger IP practice and interest in his growing specialty of monetizing IP portfolios factored into the decision. Jeffrey Solomon also moved to Foley as special [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
The National Institute of Health has awarded a ten year, $208 million contract to Milwaukee based Foley & Lardner. The contract calls for Foley & Lardner to provide intellectual property services in areas such as patents for biotechnology. Foley & Lardner recently deferred for the second time its incoming IP associates, who will be starting [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
Last Friday we reported on tips we had received indicating that Foley & Lardner was laying off as many as 39 lawyers. The firm has now confirmed that number, saying 39 lawyers across its 21 offices. The layoffs were blamed on the falling demand for legal services. Foley & Lardner LLP is an international [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 13, 2009
Foley & Lardner announced two new hires this week. Jeffrey Thrope joins in New York from Manatt Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the firm’s health care practice. He represents hospitals, nursing homes, public health facilities, not-for-profits, and other health care providers. Etsuo Doi joins in Tokyo from Paul Hastings as a partner in the intellectual [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Foley & Lardner has brought on three intellectual property lawyers for its Boston office. Matthew B. Lowrie and Aaron W. Moore join as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice; Robert J. Silverman joins as senior counsel. Lowrie was a founding partner of Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, where Moore and Silverman were also partners. Foley & Lardner’s [...]
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