Alexander Hadjis’s June move to Morrison & Foerster, two years after moving to Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to head its IP practice, caused a tiff, with Sonnenschein letting the press know that it didn’t want the IP litigator anyway. Hadjis is joined in the move by Kristin Yohannan, who will be joining him in MoFo’s Washington, D.C., office, and Rudy Kim, who will be in the firm’s Palo Alto office. The team is bringing with them clients including MediaTek, Inc., Spansion Inc., and Evapco Inc. In fact, says Hadjis, “we’re working exclusively on cases we’ve been working on for a long time now.” Harold McElhinny, the firm’s IP group cochair, says that Hadjis’s courtroom experience made him extremely attractive. McElhinny aims to have Hadjis bolster the East Coast presence of the California-based firm. MoFo also hired IP lawyer Mark Ungerman for its Washington office from Fulbright & Jaworski earlier in June. “The New York patent bar,” says McElhinny, “is well-established and somewhat clubbish. I’ve found it sort of hard to break through the idea that the world ends at the Hudson. I’m hoping to sneak up on them.”
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