Posts Tagged: "Litigation Lawyers"

Faegre Drinker is actively recruiting a litigation associate to join their thriving Intellectual Property practice. This full-time, permanent position offers the opportunity to focus on patent litigation for a national and international client base from our Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., or Wilmington offices.

Zuber Lawler & Del Duca announces new attorneys, scientists and engineers. Chizuko Ueno (Partner, NY). Dr. Jayashree Mitra (Partner, NY). Christopher Muessel (Of Counsel, Silicon Valley). Amanda-Jane Thomas (Associate, Los Angeles). Giselle Safazadeh (Associate, Chicago). Michelle Lee (Associate, Los Angeles).

Leading global law firm Dechert LLP announced this week that Chad E. Davis, Ph.D. and Katherine A. (“Kassie”) Helm, Ph.D. have joined its intellectual property practice in Boston and New York, respectively, as partners and also further expanding Dechert’s global life sciences capabilities. Davis utilizes his extensive scientific background in chemistry to structure strategic, complex patent portfolios – supporting clients through each phase of the patent process, from patent procurement to post-grant challenge and infringement analysis. Helm focuses her practice on representing life sciences clients in complex patent litigation and related intellectual property, antitrust, healthcare and international arbitration matters involving her scientific, medical and technical expertise.  

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced the addition of Deepro R. Mukerjee and Lance Soderstrom as partners in its Intellectual Property (IP) practice group in New York and Dr. Jitendra “Jitty” Malik as a partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) group in Charlotte. Mukerjee, Dr. Malik, and Soderstrom all join Katten from Alston & Bird LLP.

Dowd Scheffel PLLC is pleased to announce its founding by Matthew J. Dowd and Robert J. Scheffel.

Alston & Bird has named partner Natalie Clayton as the head of its Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Patent Litigation Team, effective immediately. Clayton has more than 10 years of experience guiding industry-leading companies through sophisticated patent litigation, as well as complex Food and Drug Administration regulatory matters.

Honigman announced this week that it added two new partners to its Intellectual Property department. John Chau joins the firm’s Patent practice group in Bloomfield Hills and Mary Hyde enters the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group in Ann Arbor. Additionally, Cristina Almendarez joins as an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group in the firm’s Chicago office.

Arnold & Porter announced this week that Evan Rothstein has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice, resident in the firm’s Denver office. Mr. Rothstein represents individuals and companies in complex and high-stakes disputes and has significant first-chair trial experience.  He advises clients across a broad range of technologies and industries with specific emphasis on media, advertising, software and hardware, gaming, and e-commerce. 

Robins Kaplan LLP® announced that Steven Carlson has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group as partner. A seasoned trial lawyer, Carlson will focus his practice on intellectual property litigation, including commercial, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition.

Minneapolis-based intellectual property law firm, Patterson Thuente IP, welcomes attorney Sarah Stensland to the firm. Stensland joins as a partner and member of the firm’s litigation team. Her practice focuses mainly on patent and trademark infringement litigation, as well as representing clients in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the USPTO. 

Partners Scott Harper, Shannon Bates and Austin Champion are pleased to announce their law firm assumed the new name Harper Bates & Champion LLP effective March 5, 2018. Formerly Griffith Bates Champion & Harper LLP, the name change reflects the recent departure of former partner Casey Griffith, who transitioned from the firm to pursue a separate endeavor as well as the firms’ evolving practice, strengthening its focus on growing, protecting and defending client brands.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Grace L. Pan to the firm’s New York City office as a partner on the firm’s internationally recognized Patent Litigation Team. Ms. Pan is a patent litigator and counselor representing clients from the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, and China.

Munck Wilson Mandala recently announced that Chad Ray would be joining its Commercial Litigation Practice as a Senior Associate.  Ray applies a unique background bridging chemistry and law to represent clients in a variety of patent litigation matters, spanning electronics, automotive, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices. 

Leason Ellis LLP announced that Robert M. Isackson has joined the firm as a Partner effective February 1, 2018. Rob built his career at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he was a Partner from 1995 until 2016. During Rob’s tenure, he headed Orrick’s New York IP Group from 2002 to 2008 and served as Co-Chair of its Life Science Practice from 2009 to 2013. In 2016, Rob joined Venable LLP as a Partner in the IP Litigation Practice in New York.