In the landscape of increasingly high-stakes and complex intellectual property litigation, an aggressive race among law firms to grab eminent patent lawyers is apparent. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is among the law firms that have expanded their IP division amid this demand. As well as Orrick, the past week saw several other firms including Arnold & Porter, Crowell & Moring, McCarter & English, and Miles & Stockbridge, securing D.C partners to boost their central practices.
Orrick has been consistently adapting and growing in recognition of the critical importance of intellectual property law. This comes not just with the ongoing tech revolution, but also due to mounting global trade tensions and increasing questions of tech and cybersecurity, all of which have brought patent issues to the forefront of the legal industry.
You can find more details in the original report from the National Law Journal.