Bringing on five intellectual property lawyers from a Fort Lauderdale and Silicon Valley-based boutique, Dickinson Wright has spurred on an already-lively hiring market for IP lawyers among Am Law 200 firms.
Michigan-based Dickinson Wright has announced that it would effectively absorb the small firm, Mayback & Hoffman, as it hired the boutique’s two name partners—Catherine Hoffman and Gregory Mayback—and three other lawyers in Florida and Silicon Valley. Hoffman and Mayback join Dickinson Wright as members based in Ft. Lauderdale, where their colleagues James Stepan and Julie Dahlgard will serve in of counsel roles. The fifth former Mayback & Hoffman lawyer, Rebecca Tie, joins Dickinson Wright’s Silicon Valley outpost as of counsel.
