June 4, 2001
THE CALIFORNIA LAW BUSINESS JOURNAL
PALO ALTO – McCutchen Doyle: TWO NEW PARTNERS, THEN THIRD, MAKE MOVE A CHARM
San Francisco’s McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen will pick up three partners from the local offices of Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie. The most recent defector to make her intentions known is biomed patent pro Antoinette Konski, who resigned from Baker & McKenzie at the end of May.
Konski will join the Palo Alto intellectual property group of McCutchen Doyle at or before Baker & McKenzie’s typical 60-day partner withdrawal notice period. Before that, a pair of tech-law partners, Deborah Bailey-Wells and Michael Arruda, announced they’d be joining the San Francisco office of McCutchen Doyle. Bailey Wells joined at the end of May, and, at that time, Arruda was dickering with Baker & McKenzie over his departure date.
Wells’ practice focuses on trademark and copyright work, especially licensing, trademarks and copyrights, and Arruda does transactions for e-commerce and informational technology businesses.
Larry Watanabe, recruiter with Watanabe Nason & Seltzer in Los Angeles, matched all three lawyers with McCutchen Doyle. He says they complement and demonstrate their new firm’s commitment to its intellectual property practice. Altogether, McCutchen Doyle has 315 lawyers in four California offices.
The departure announcements of Konski, Bailey-Wells and Arruda make 11 in two months for the Northern California offices of Baker & McKenzie. That leaves 100 San Francisco Bay Area lawyers for a firm that is approaching 3,000 lawyers worldwide.