Kaye Scholer is opening a new office in Silicon Valley, with the help of a veteran patent litigator from White & Case. William Coats was the manager of White & Case’s Palo Alto office prior to last year and brings some heavy clients with him to Kaye Scholer. Among his book of business, estimated at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
2009 looks a lot like 2008 at Arent Fox where revenue fell slightly to $216.5 million from the previous year’s $222.5 million. Profits per partner came in at $800,000, the same as in 2008, and revenue per lawyer was $690,000, a slight drop from 2008. The firm finished the year with the same number of partners [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Woodcock Washburn has named David J. Wolfsohn chairman of the firm’s litigation group. He replaces Dianne Elderkin, who left this week with three other partners to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s. Wolfson has been with Woodcock Washburn since 2005. Among his more notable achievements at the firm was a $19-million jury verdict in a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
On Thursday we talked about the legal muscle involved with the Conan O’Brien dustup at NBC, and speculated that Conan might be able to take Triumph the Insult Comic Dog with him wherever he goes. According to the terms of the agreement reached between Conan and NBC, it looks like Triumph will have to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Brinks Hofer has closed it’s office in Arlington, Va, which was staffed by three paralegals and no lawyers, and opened its doors in Washington DC. The new office will be led by Thomas Holt, an IP lawyer from Brinks Hofer’s Chicago office. Holt will be joined in Washington by associates Scott Brim and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Sterne Kessler picked up four IP lawyers from Blank Rome, including H. Keeto Sabharwal who had been Blank Rome’s IP litigation practice group leader. Sabharwal brought Daniel Yonan, who joins as of counsel, and associates Nirav Desai and Dennies Varughese along with him. The four will work out of the Washington DC office. Sterne Kessler Goldstein [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 10, 2009
Former member of the House of Representatives George Nethercutt has signed on with Lee & Hayes in Spokane, Washington. Nethercutt, a Republican, represented his district in eastern Washington for a decade. Lee & Hayes, a Washington firm with offices in Spokane, Seattle and Austin, Texas, specializes in IP law. Nethercutt’s practice will [...]
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...Friday, October 9, 2009
According to a new report from legal consultants BTI Consulting Group, spending on outside counsel will continue to drop next year. In 2008 spending on oustide counsel averaged out at $20.8 million. This year outside counsel spending average out to $18.5 million and next years average is predicted to by $17.7 million. Corporate law, [...]
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