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IP Lawyers Leaving Fish & Richardson for Bracewell & Giuliani
Texas Lawyer
October 06, 2009
Fish & Richardson's loss is Bracewell & Giuliani's gain. Bracewell announced Monday that it has picked up a group of nine intellectual property lawyers from Fish & Richardson's office in Austin, Texas, which is slated for closing by the end of the year.
The IP group is headed by Alan Albright, who was managing principal of Fish & Richardson's Austin office. Albright, Ed Cavazos, Barry Shelton, Andrew Gajkowski and Chris Johnson joined Bracewell on Oct. 1, while Betty Chen is slated to make the move on Oct. 6 and Josh Tucker on Oct. 12. Michael Chibib and David Hoffman will join Bracewell after they complete an International Trade Commission matter, notes the press release.
Albright, Cavazos, Chibib and Shelton join Bracewell as partners, while the other five lawyers come on as associates. Albright did not immediately return a telephone message left at his new office at Bracewell.
In late August, Peter Devlin, the Boston-based president of Fish & Richardson, announced the firm would close the Austin office because of "strategic decisions to invest the firm's resources in ways that build on our fundamental strengths and core competencies." According to an e-mail from Kelly Largey, national marketing director for Fish & Richardson, there are currently 16 lawyers remaining in the firm's Austin office. Four of the 16 lawyers listed in the Austin office on the firm's Web site are in the Bracewell group.
This article first appeared on Texas Lawyer's Tex Parte blog.
