July 19, 2005
THE RECORDER
By Marie-Anne Hogarth
SAN FRANCISCO Talk about a bigger platform: Two partners from Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin have left for DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Howard, Rice, with a single office in San Francisco, has 115 lawyers, while DLA has 2,900 attorneys in 53 offices and 20 countries.
Arthur Beeman, the chairman of Howard, Rice’s patent litigation practice, and patent litigator Pamela Fulmer joined DLA’s San Francisco office as partners Monday.
Beeman had been with Howard, Rice for a year since moving here from Kentucky, where he was chair of IP litigation at Frost Brown Todd. He is licensed to practice law in Kentucky, Ohio and Minnesota and says he will be taking the California bar exam next week.
Fulmer has spent her entire 14-year career at Howard, Rice.
“We truly believe that there is a unique opportunity to be part of the building of an international law firm,” said Beeman. “We believe the patent litigation practice is one of the best in the United States given its breadth and depth.”
With the additions, DLA has six IP partners in San Francisco, said John Allcock, co-chair of the firm’s technology, media and communication practice group.
“I think that it is no mystery that we are aggressively expanding our patent litigation capability,” said Allcock. “They approached us in search of a more suitable platform, and I think we provided for them.