Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has brought on a new intellectual property litigation partner in Menlo Park, California, although two other IP lawyers have left its ranks in the region to join fast-growing Polsinelli in nearby Palo Alto.

Mansi Shah joined Kilpatrick Townsend last week from Merchant & Gould, where she opened the IP-focused firm’s San Jose office in 2016, along with veteran IP litigator David Bohrer. The latter left Merchant & Gould earlier this year to join local firm Greenfield Draa & Harrington. While Bohrer’s former firm prepared to close its San Jose office, Shah stuck around for three extra months to work on pending litigation.

Mansi Shah