Hanify Boutique Raids Bingham, Sets Up New D.C. IP Office
A Boston commercial litigation boutique has scored a double coup by stealing five intellectual property lawyers from Bingham McCutchen.
First, the five will create a new Washington, D.C., office for Hanify & King. But, perhaps even more important, they will add considerably more depth to the firm’s intellectual property practice, reports the National Law Journal, in an article reprinted by New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
Prior to bringing in former Bingham partner Ed Pennington to open the new D.C. office on March 17, “We really didn’t have the depth and overall capability to go very far in that practice,” says Jim King, the Hanify firm’s president and co-founding partner. “That’s really the primary motivation behind this change.”
Pennington expects four Bingham associates to join him shortly at Hanify & King. The Bingham firm, which is also headquartered in Boston, has about 1,000 lawyers in 14 offices in the U.S., London and Asia.
King apparently plans to serve as managing partner of the new D.C. office, and other lawyers from the firm’s Boston office also are expected to work there on a rotating basis.
