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Kaye Scholer gets former Dewey partners in Menlo Park

By Richard Binder

Kaye Scholer LLP has announced that Barbara Caulfield, Michael J. Malecek and Peter Root have joined Kaye Scholer?s Menlo Park office as Partners in its Intellectual Property practice. Caulfield, Malecek and Root were previously Partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf.

Barbara Caulfield, formerly the Managing Partner of Dewey & LeBoeuf?s Silicon Valley office, and the former Co-Chair of its Global Life Sciences Industry Sector and its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, focuses her practice on complex intellectual property litigation for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Ms. Caulfield was previously Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Affymetrix, Inc., a biotechnology company in Silicon Valley, and served as a United States District Judge in the Northern District of California from 1991?1994. In addition, she has taught various courses at Northwestern Law School, University of California, Hastings College of Law and University of Oregon Law School.

Michael J. Malecek has experience in all areas of litigation, including white collar, compliance, securities and employment, with an emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Malecek previously served as the chief advocacy counsel for Affymetrix, Inc. and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California, where he investigated and prosecuted technology-related and intellectual property crimes, such as extensive counterfeit software rings and other white collar matters.

Peter Root specializes in complex business and commercial litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property and technology matters, securities and corporate governance litigation, and claims arising from mergers and acquisitions. As both trial and appellate counsel, Mr. Root has handled a wide variety of civil litigation matters in federal and state court, including securities class and mass actions, shareholder derivative, unfair competition and fiduciary litigation, patent infringement and other intellectual property disputes, contract and fraud suits, and tax and ERISA controversies.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).