Patent litigator Amr Aly, 46, is no stranger to an adrenaline rush. Aly, who recently moved from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr to Kilpatrick Stockton, was a U.S. Olympian, playing for the men’s soccer team in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. “The competitive spirit you develop as an athlete parlays well into litigation,” Aly says. He’d know, having represented T-Mobile and WayPort in major patent suits, both of which he won on summary judgment. Aly is also experienced in pharmaceutical and business-method patent litigation.
The move from IP powerhouse Wilmer allows Aly to score some high-profile goals for Kilpatrick’s burgeoning IP practice. The Atlanta-based firm currently has 120 IP lawyers nationwide, but Aly was the first IP partner in New York when he started at the firm in late October. Aly’s Arabic language skills may also come in handy as Kilpatrick grows its Dubai office, opened last November.
| WHO | MOVED TO |
|---|---|
| Craig Opperman and Carina Tan from MorganLewis & Bockius; Rauer Meyer from Thelen | Reed Smith in Palo Alto; Los Angeles |
| IPatent litigator Tony Chen from Bingham McCutchen | Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles and Shanghai |
| IP litigators Steven Rizzi, Catherine McGrath and Robert Camors from Thelen; Richard Kaufman from Heller Ehrman | Foley & Lardner in New York, Silicon Valley and San Diego |
| Life sciences lawyers Susan McBee and Teresa Lavenue from Womble Carlyle | Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Washington, D.C. |
| Life sciences lawyer Vincent Capuano from Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox | Duane Morris in Boston |
| Curtis Smolar from Bay Capital Legal | Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley in San Francisco |
| James Bindseil from Amin, Turocy & Calvin | Arent Fox in Washington, D.C. |
| Litigator and Chicago IP litigation blogger David Donoghue from DLA Piper | Holland & Knight in Chicago |
| Patent lawyer Michael Smith from Delphi Corporation | Howard & Howard in Michigan |
| Assistant patent counsel Kevin Townsend from Johnson & Johnson | Lovells in New York |
| IP group chair Marc Friedman from Sillis Cummis& Gross | Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in New York |
| Arnold Rady from Morgan & Finnegan | Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik in New Jersey |
| IP litigator Michael Gilleran of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge | Adler Pollock & Sheehan in Boston |
| Richard Penfold of Heller Ehrman | Brown Rudnick in London |
