Like a lot of partners who have made lateral moves recently, intellectual property litigator Jim Shimota has spent his first days at K&L Gates’ Chicago office working remotely.

Unlike his counterparts, however, Shimota has been virtually meeting his new colleagues and clients from hundreds of miles away. The former Haynes and Boone partner, who lives in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, has been working out of his father-in-law’s house in Venice, Florida; his wife was concerned about her father when the COVID-19 pandemic started.

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