Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel announced that it brought on Miki Yamaguchi to act as manager of the firm's intellectual property practice in its Philadelphia and Wilmington offices.

Before taking on the new role, in which she will oversee support operations for the practice, Yamaguchi was a patent supervisor in Baker & Hostetler's IP group. Prior to that she spent 10 years working as an IP paralegal. 

Yamaguchi is a certified licensing professional. She also holds certification from the Japanese government for IP management skills and is fluent in Japanese.