After Big Case, Day Casebeer Experiences ‘Famine,’ Shrinks by 11 Lawyers

The intellectual property law firm Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder has “scaled down” over the past year, shrinking to 27 lawyers from 38 last summer.

Name partner Rusty Day told the Recorder that there are two reasons for the shrinkage.

The first: "We scaled the firm to reconcile our resources with the demand for our services."

The second: The conclusion of a suit filed on behalf of Amgen against drug company Roche. “Certainly the successful conclusion of the Roche case meant that we had much less demand for our services,” Day told the Recorder. “We went from feast to famine."

The Recorder offers another possible reason: The effect of sanctions, later lifted, for failing to turn over documents for Day Casebeer’s client Qualcomm in a discovery dispute. Two associates and two partners who were sanctioned have all left the law firm.