5-Partner IP Team Latest to Depart Nixon Peabody; Firm Announced Leadership Shift Earlier This Week
News of another partner defection in the New York offices of Nixon Peabody follows an announcement earlier this week that the leadership of the firm is shifting to a Boston-based partner.
A five-partner team of four intellectual property lawyers and a litigator will be departing from the firm’s Rochester office to join LeClairRyan, which is opening an office there, reports the New York Law Journal in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
The group’s planned move is the latest in a series of exits by Nixon Peabody partners and rainmakers during the past year to competing firms including DLA Piper and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
It also follows an announcement by the firm on Sunday that Andrew Glincher, who has served as managing partner of the firm’s Boston office since 2004, will take over the helm as managing partner and CEO of the entire firm in early 2011 from Richard Langan Jr..
The news is the latest sign of a significant power shift from New York to Boston, as the firm replaced departing partners in the Empire State with counterparts in the home of the predecessor firm Peabody & Brown. It merged in 1999 with Rochester, N.Y.-based Nixon Hargrave Devans & Doyle, recounts a previous New York Law Journal article.
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