Stanford Law Prof and Four Keker Partners Form New IP Firm
Four high-profile intellectual property partners from litigation boutique Keker & Van Nest are leaving to form their own law firm.
Two of the lawyers, Daralyn Durie and Ragesh Tangri, are law partners and life partners, according to the Recorder. Joining them as partners at the new firm will be Stanford patent law professor Mark Lemley, who had worked for Keker in an of counsel capacity, and Keker partners Clement Roberts and Ryan Kent. Lemley will continue to teach and will work one day a week at the new firm.
Durie, Tangri and Lemley all attended law school together, the story says. Their new firm will be called Durie Tangri Lemley Roberts & Kent. “We all thought it would be fun to be in a smaller environment. It allows us to be a little more entrepreneurial,” Durie told the Recorder.
Durie successfully defended Comcast in a $2.2 billion infringement case and helped negotiate a settlement for Google in a copyright dispute over online books, the story says. Legal recruiter Gary Davis told the Recorder that the departures are “a big deal” but Keker remains a quality law firm.
