Tag Archive | "intellectual property practice"

Seyfarth Shaw Hires for IP, Corporate in Atlanta

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Seyfarth Shaw Hires for IP, Corporate in Atlanta

Seyfarth Shaw has added lawyers to its intellectual property and corporate & finance groups in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack D. Todd joins as a partner from Morris, Manning & Martin. His practice concentrates on patent and trademark prosecution, strategic counseling, enforcement and protection of IP, transactional, licensing, opinion, and clearance. His JD is from Duke University School [...]

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K&L Gates Brings on Partners

Friday, August 21, 2009

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K&L Gates Brings on Partners

Charles D. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in patent prosecution, portfolio review and strategic advice, ex-parte and inter-partes reexaminations, interferences, non-infringement and invalidy analyses and opinions, due diligence reviews for companies and investors, pre-litigation [...]

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Paul Hastings Hires IP Team from Skadden

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Paul Hastings Hires IP Team from Skadden

Paul Hastings has hired a team of three IP attorneys from Skadden. Jeff Randall joins Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto and Washington DC offices, as co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice. He represents companies in multi-billion-dollar intellectual property cases. He earned his JD from the University of California Hastings College of Law. Allan Soobert joins in [...]

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Law Firm Hirings & Firings

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Law Firm Hirings & Firings

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Salem Katsh joins Schnader Harrison from private practice as as a partner in its New York intellectual property group. Katsh previously chaired the IP groups at Weil Gotshal & Manges and Shearman & Sterling. More recently, he was the chair of the IP group at Kasowitz Benson Torres [...]

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Lathrop & Gage Hiring for New Chicago Office

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Lathrop & Gage Hiring for New Chicago Office

Lathrop & Gage has hired two Sonnenschein partners to launch its new Chicago office, its 11th — and plans “aggressive recruiting.” Blaine Kimrey will be managing partner in Chicago, joining Lathrop’s intellectual property practice. He is joined by associate Bryan Clark. The oldest law firm west of the Mississippi River, Kansas City, Missouri’s Lathrop & Gage provides [...]

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McKool Smith Nabs 3 IP Lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf

Friday, July 10, 2009

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McKool Smith Nabs 3 IP Lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf

Dallas, Texas-based law firm McKool Smith has nabbed three intellectual property lawyers away from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Dewey IP litigation co-chair Dirk Thomas, partner Robert Auchter, and of counsel Jeffrey Frey joined McKool Smith as partners on July 1st. They are working out of Washington, DC, bringing the number of McKool Smith lawyers there to seven. McKool [...]

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Law Firm Hirings & Firings

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Law Firm Hirings & Firings

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Tom Reilly joins Cooley Manion Jones in Boston, from Greenberg Traurig. He joins the firm as of counsel. Cooley is a former two-term Massachusetts state attorney general Gordon Peilow joins the City of London’s Cubism Law, where he will advise on trademark & copyright matters, IT contracts & litigation, [...]

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Virtual Law Partners Hires Four Attorneys

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Virtual Law Partners Hires Four Attorneys

Virtual Law Partners, which hired five new partners four weeks ago, has this week brought on four new partners for its commercial lending and intellectual property practices. David Lawson joins from Troutman Sanders, where he was a partner, to chair Virtual Law’s commercial lending practice. He earned his JD from the University of Southern California Law [...]

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Foley & Lardner Brings on New Partners

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Foley & Lardner Brings on New Partners

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 [...]

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Foley & Lardner Adds Lowrie Lando IP Team

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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Foley & Lardner Adds Lowrie Lando IP Team

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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