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Originally posted by sock for another post
Very helpful, thank you.
Anyone else? Wonk? Coltrane? mmmm? hello? Any thoughts from you guys would be much, much appreciated.
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I have insight. On or about 2000, their practice group head was a soft-IP guy. They had what seemed like a hodge-podge of IP people. A few interesting litigators, lots of nice patent partners and associates etc.
I must say though, its always fun to watch the interaction between e.g., patent types, e.g., from third tier schools, and soft-IP/non-IP types, from e.g., Michigan and Northwestern or whatever. Its like mixing martians and venetians in the cutthroat GP world. Personally, I think everyone would get along better if they just put the patent people in the penthouse suites and left them alone. But I digress.
I quit keeping track of them long ago, but my understanding was that at least a few of the patent people left quickly to open their own shop. Most of the people I met there seemed like very nice people.
Rumors on this and *other* boards, has the source of any discord possibly being the practice group head. But that's not my bone to pick.
For IP type stuff in Chicago, I swear I'd be interested in hearing anyone's thoughts on Barnes & Thornburgh or Michael Best. There was at least one ugly series of stories coming out of Michael Best last year, but I'm not even sure if I believe it still.
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