Intellectual Property
Best Lawyers Recognizes Twelve Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew Attorneys
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew announces that twelve of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in nineteen different practice areas. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
The practice areas and the attorney(s) listed in each area are as follows:
- Commercial Litigation: Ritchie E. Berger, Karen McAndrew
- Corporate Compliance Law: David Gurtman
- Corporate Governance Law: Brian Murphy
- Corporate Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan, Brian R. Murphy
- Education Law: Jeffrey J. Nolan, Karen McAndrew
- Employment Law – Management: Amy M. McLaughlin, Jeffrey J. Nolan, Karen McAndrew
- Immigration Law: Leigh Polk Cole
- Litigation – Construction: Karen McAndrew
- Litigation – Intellectual Property: Shapleigh Smith, Jr., Karen McAndrew
- Litigation – Labor & Employment: Amy M. McLaughlin
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Non-Profit / Charities Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger, Karen McAndrew
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants: Shapleigh Smith, Jr.
- Real Estate Law: Austin D. Hart, Molly Langan
- Tax Law: Mark A. Langan
- Technology Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan
- Trusts and Estates: Mark A. Langan
McMahan Quoted in World Intellectual Property Review Regarding Patent Troll Law
Jeff McMahan was quoted in two recent articles by World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR) on the new Patent Troll Law. For the full articles please visit the following links to the WIPR website.
Three Dinse Attorneys Prevail in Trademark Registration Appeal
Elizabeth Kleinberg, Scott Fewell and Jeff McMahan recently prevailed in a trademark registration appeal before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The matter required appeal to the TTAB following a final refusal of registration by the Patent and Trademark Office. The firm obtained a reversal from the TTAB, securing registration of the trademark for the client. Liz Kleinberg and Jeff McMahan worked on the prosecution of the trademark application for registration. Liz was the primary author of the briefs to the TTAB and Scott Fewell argued the appeal before the TTAB at the Patent and Trademark Office in Northern Virginia.
Nolan Speaks on Electronic Discovery Issues
On March 21, 2012, Jeff Nolan of Dinse’s Higher Education Practice Group did a presentation at a National Association of College and University Attorneys conference in Seattle, Washington on how colleges and universities should prepare to address their obligations to preserve and produce electronically stored information in the event of litigation.