Ex-Boies Schiller Partners Reunite at Durie Tangri in Los Angeles
Marking the latest in a string of partner departures for Boies Schiller, Andrew Esbenshade is joining two former colleagues at the California IP boutique.
March 16, 2020 at 05:00 AM
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Another Boies Schiller & Flexner partner has left the firm, joining Durie Tangri's budding Los Angeles office.
In his move to the California litigation firm, Andrew Esbenshade is rejoining two of his former colleagues, Michael Proctor and Benjamin Au. The three were previously partners together at boutique firm Caldwell Leslie & Proctor.
"I am really impressed by the trial-focused practice at Durie Tangri, and to already have great friends practicing there was a definite plus," Esbenshade said in a statement about his move.
His clients include banking and technology companies, according to federal court records, which show he has recently represented clients including Giphy Inc. and CIT Bank in recent years.
Proctor. who joined Durie Tangri in 2018, called Esbenshade's addition "a great reunion."
"Andy and I have been shoulder-to-shoulder in battle on dozens of cases at our prior firm," he said. Durie Tangri now boasts three partners and six associates in the Los Angeles location.
Au had jumped from Caldwell Leslie straight to Durie Tangri in 2016, before Boies Schiller acquired Caldwell Leslie in 2017.
A spokesman for Boies Schiller did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Esbenshade's move.
The number of partners to leave Boies Schiller reached double-digits earlier this week, when longtime New York partner Chris Duffy took his complex commercial litigation practice to Vinson & Elkins and Douglass Mitchell joined Jenner & Block in Washington, reuniting with former Boies Schiller partners Lee Wolosky and Dawn Smalls, who joined Jenner in February. Also last month, the co-leader of Boies Schiller's San Francisco office, former prosecutor Kathleen Hartnett, left to join Cooley.
Asked about the departures, the firm's leaders told The American Lawyer in February they do not expect any material effect on the firm's financial performance. But, they added, they are considering changes to the firm's compensation system.
Durie Tangri, for its part, saw a prominent loss last year, when partner Sonal Mehta made a move to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in September. She had worked alongside Wilmer on matters for a common client before making the move. On the same day, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher announced that it had hired away San Francisco partner Joshua Lerner, also from Durie Tangri.
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