3 IP partners leap from Faegre to WilmerHale; more growth expected in Denver office
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Three intellectual property partners have exited the Denver office of Faegre Baker Daniels to establish an IP practice group at the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr office there.
The trio includes Natalie Hanlon Leh, who served as the administrative partner in her now-former firm’s IP practice group in Colorado, according to the Denver Business Journal and the Denver Post.
Established a little over a year ago, the Denver office of WilmerHale now has five partners and more expansion is planned. The original partners, who split their time between Denver and Washington, D.C., are Ken Salazar and Tom Strickland, the business publication notes. Salazar, a former state attorney general, served as secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Obama administration. Strickland, a former U.S. attorney for Colorado, was Salazar’s chief of staff at the Interior Department.
“This is the second major step in our expansion into the Rocky Mountains and not our last,” said Robert Novick. He is co-managing partner of the 1,000-attorney firm, which has 14 offices in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Washington, D.C., Belgium, China and Germany. A business services center for WilmerHale is located in Ohio.
Novick said WilmerHale anticipates more growth in Denver soon and expects to expand its securities litigation and white-collar crime practice there.
A law firm press release provides more details.
