One year after Heller Ehrman’s dissolution, many of its lawyers are still looking for homes, and rekindling old friendships in some cases. When a seven-lawyer intellectual property team moved from Proskauer Rose to Perkins Coie last week, four of those lawyers were reuniting with former Heller colleagues. The four partners, Colin Sandercock, Paul Booth, John Isacson, and David Laub, started out together at Foley & Lardner’s Washington, D.C. office, then joined Heller in 2000, and left to come to Proskauer in 2006. They will be joined by three associates and a technical specialist.

By coming to Perkins Coie, they rejoin 13 former Heller lawyers, including the entire Madison, Wis., office, which Perkins bought in an auction-like bid in October. “Many of Perkins’s Madison office’s litigators had worked with me over the past 11 years,” said Mr. Sandercock, who will handle patent litigation, licensing and counseling. Several of the Wisconsin-based partners he will rejoin, including John Skilton and David Harth, had also started at Foley and moved to Heller with him almost a decade ago. While at Proskauer, Mr. Sandercock had continued to work as co-counsel with them on several matters he brought with him from Heller, like a patent infringement case against Abbott Laboratories on a Hepatitis C Virus genotype.

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