Cloud-Based Culhane Meadows Lures 5 IP Partners
After losing five partners to a brick-and-mortar spinoff, the virtual firm replenished its ranks with hires in Chicago, Dallas and New York.
December 20, 2017 at 03:16 PM
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It's been a busy time for Culhane Meadows, the cloud-based law firm founded nearly five years ago by four lawyers in Dallas and Atlanta.
The firm, which opened its virtual doors in 2013, announced on Dec. 19 that five new IP partners have joined in three major markets. The additions come after five partners left in recent weeks to form a brick-and-mortar firm, Edwards Maxson Mago & Macaulay, with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and New York.
Grant Walsh, a co-managing partner of Culhane Meadows' Dallas office and a founding member of the firm, trumpeted the new arrivals and predicted more growth next year.
“We get applications all the time as people learn about us and the opportunity to get rid of all those trappings of Big Law,” he said. With more than 50 lawyers now, the firm may add another five new IP lawyers early next year, Walsh said, bumping the total in that practice alone to 20 lawyers.
The newcomers this week are Joe Bogdan in Chicago, who has served in-house for World Wrestling Entertainment and in private practice at Drinker Biddle & Reath and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Larry Kass in New York, who spent most of his career in private practice as a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Robert Klinger in Dallas, a former IP co-chair at Jackson Walker; Felicia Traub in Dallas, who served as in-house counsel at Colgate-Palmolive Co. and in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Jingjing Ye in Dallas and New York, who worked in-house at Samsung Research America.
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