International law firm Dorsey & Whitney announced today that Scott Smith, M.D., J.D. has joined the Patent and Life Sciences practice groups in the Firm’s Palo Alto office as a Partner. Mr. Smith brings twelve years of experience as a patent attorney focused on the medical device industry. His clients range from the pre-funded garage stage to venture backed start-ups to publicly traded companies. Having served as a former in-house counsel at several successful medical device companies, Mr. Smith has extensive experience in patent procurement, portfolio management, due diligence preparation, freedom-to-operate and patentability evaluations, and the setup and management of in-house patent programs.

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DLA Piper today announced that Dharmesh Pandya has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office.

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Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is at it again. The California Daily Journal recently ranked Procopio fourth among all California firms in terms of growth in 2012, with a 27.3% growth rate. And the firm recently earned the ranking as San Diego’s largest law firm, with over 130 attorneys.

Procopio now adds again to that number, announcing the addition of five new attorneys to their Silicon Valley office.

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The Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley office has grown with the addition of Mr. Yan Zhang as its first corporate partner.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has further expanded its mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets capabilities with the addition of Eric Hwang, formerly of Oracle Corp., and Christopher Rose, formerly of CODA Automotive, as partners in its Silicon Valley office.

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Emma Maconick, an expert in complex intellectual property licensing and technology transactions, has joined King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the firm’s corporate group.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of Mashhood Rassam as partner in its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Rassam will add to a growing list of talented, senior litigators in McDermott’s Silicon Valley office at a time when competitor-on-competitor litigation in the tech industry reaches an all-time high.

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Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP announces today that it will be opening an office in Palo Alto, California.

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Glenn G. Nash is joining the firm in its Palo Alto office as a partner and as Global Co-Head of Sidley’s Technology Transactions practice. Mr. Nash, who is recognized as one of the leading IT and technology transactions lawyers in the world by Chambers Global and The Legal 500 US, brings to this role deep experience in the Internet, digital media, digital marketing, software, hardware, and information technologies industries. He focuses his practice on intellectual property matters and technology transactions, and provides counsel to companies establishing or expanding their business operations domestically and internationally.

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Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Lawrence M. Chu has joined the firm’s Business Law Department in its Silicon Valley office as a member of Goodwin’s Technology Companies, M&A/Corporate Governance and Private Equity Practices. He will focus on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and corporate finance transactions in the technology, Internet, digital media, financial technology, e-commerce and biotech industries, and will help to lead the growth of the technology M&A practice on the West Coast. Chu joins Goodwin from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in San Francisco where he was a partner.

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