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Nixon Peabody, Foley & Lardner Add Partners From Thelen
New York Law Journal
November 26, 2008
The group includes four partners who will join Nixon Peabody's New York office -- Kathleen Balderston, Ellen Friedman, David Graybeal and William O'Brien -- one counsel, Garrett Smith, and one associate.
The firm also has added two energy and environmental partners each in the Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley offices, as well as a counsel in Washington. Earlier this month, Morgan Lewis & Bockius acquired an eight-partner energy practice from Thelen, which voted to dissolve in late October.
Nixon Peabody has more than 800 attorneys in 19 cities, with about 275 in New York. Meanwhile, Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner has added three former Thelen partners in New York, including Barry Felder, co-chair of Thelen's commercial litigation practice and former name partner of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner before its 2006 merger with Thelen.
Two associates are also making the move to the litigation group. In addition, Foley & Lardner's New York office has added from Thelen two intellectual property partners: Steven J. Rizzi and Catherine McGrath. A third Thelen IP partner has joined Foley's Silicon Valley office. Foley & Lardner has more than 1,000 attorneys in nearly two dozen offices, including 30 in New York.
