Quinn Emanuel and Cooley have raided boutiques to bring in partners with technical backgrounds and significant IP litigation expertise.

A trade lawyer who represented the Canadian government has joined Steptoe & Johnson in London, while Cooley, his former firm, has recruited a former special assistant to President Barack Obama.

A Los Angeles-based partner with a well-established practice focusing on disputes relating to California’s Proposition 65 has joined Steptoe & Johnson.

Cooley has hired two former government lawyers, including a former assistant to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to its Washington disputes practices, following on from its 2020 promotions.

A former criminal prosecutor with extensive white-collar and cybercrime experience has joined Cooley in San Francisco.

Alicia O’Brien, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice has joined King & Spalding at a time when, she says, companies are under significant congressional scrutiny.

Departing FTI Consulting after more than a decade is Phil Smith, who has been recruited to Ashurst’s e-discovery team in Melbourne, Australia, while the firm has boosted its white-collar crime expertise in London.

United States firm Cooley has added an experienced London white-collar defence partner as head of the practice.

A prosecutor who worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 US election has joined Cooley as a litigation partner in New York and Washington, DC.

With a focus on intellectual property rights and their enforcement in the United States, Shana Ting Lipton takes a look at a patent review process that is shaking up the pharmaceutical world, and assesses what the future holds for pharma companies.

A legal lobbying group in favour of Britain remaining in the EU possesses some formidable backers; others disagree, having their own champions, like Michael Gove, the current Justice Secretary, who backs Brexit, while his Labour shadow strongly opposes it.