A week after Cozen O'Connor announced the addition of a nine-attorney intellectual property litigation team from Duane Morris, including five partners who moved to Cozen's D.C. office, the firm said today its Washington office has picked up another new member for its IP practice from Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz.
Louis Heidelberger represents clients from a range of industries including telecommunications and luxury goods, commonly serving as general counsel to mid-market and growing companies.
Intellectual property practice chair Camille Miller said Heidelberger will fit well with a 19-person team picked up last summer from Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane. Miller said the firm "hadn't really represented large telecom companies" before acquiring the Cohen Pontani team and that Heidelberger "fits well with the prosecution work" performed by that group.
Heidelberger's hire continued the firm's recent push to bolster its IP practice, one of four areas targeted for growth in Cozen O'Connor's strategic plan, according to Miller. The other three groups selected for fast growth are the firm's energy, commercial litigation and real estate practices.
"The reason we picked those practice areas is because they're very conducive to handle anywhere," Miller said. "You can be anywhere and practice intellectual property."
In a statement, Heidelberger pointed to the Philadelphia-based firm's broad scope as a national law firm as an incentive for his move.
“Cozen O’Connor not only boasts a full-service patent group across all technologies, but is a general practice law firm having all of the key legal disciplines that are essential to my practice,” Heidelberger said in the statement.
Heidelberger will step into a Washington office Miller characterized as rapidly expanding, using to last week's addition of the five Duane Morris partners to illustrate this point.
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