Kelley Drye & Warren has hired another attorney from Dow Lohnes, the Washington, D.C., firm that has seen its lawyer head count cut nearly in half over the past three years. The new addition is DAVID LONG, now a patent litigation partner in Kelley Drye’s D.C. office.
Long, the former chair of the patent practice at Dow Lohnes, specializes in technology and telecommunications–related IP work. He joined Dow Lohnes in 2011 from Howrey as that firm collapsed.
“David’s arrival further enhances our capabilities for clients in the telecommunications and high-tech industries,” Lewis Rose, managing partner of Kelley Drye’s D.C. office, said in a statement. “Growing our intellectual property breadth and depth will further enhance our value-add services to our clients.” (Neither Long nor Rose were immediately available for comment Tuesday.)
Long’s arrival at Kelley Drye comes a few weeks after the firm hired Adisa Bakari and Jeffery Whitney, two former leaders of Dow Lohnes’s sports and entertainment practice, to launch a sports and entertainment group. Last week, The Am Law Daily took a detailed look at the numerous other partners who have left Dow Lohnes in the recent past.
A substantial number of those defections came in the wake of a decision by media giant Cox Enterprises to end an exclusive arrangement with Dow Lohnes in certain practice areas and spread that work to other firms, a development that has hit the firm’s Atlanta office especially hard.
In other Churn news . . .
Arent Fox has brought on former Dentons partner DANA FINBERG as a partner in its litigation and intellectual property groups. Based in San Francisco, Finberg serves as trial counsel on patent, trademark, trade secrets, trade dress, and copyright cases.
