Bobby Burchfield, a management committee member and head of the complex litigation group at McDermott Will & Emery, has left the firm with partner Matthew Leland for King & Spalding. Burchfield joins the firm nearly four years after the departure of former top litigator Paul Clement. His departure from McDermott comes on the heels of a pair of IP partners defecting for Paul Hastings and as McDermott seeks to ramp up its private client practice.
March 20, 2015 at 04:36 PM
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Bobby Burchfield, head of the complex litigation group at McDermott Will & Emery, has left the firm with fellow litigation partner Matthew Leland for King & Spalding.
The moves comes after two top IP litigation partners left McDermott in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., for Paul Hastings, as noted by sibling publication The Recorder, and McDermott’s hire of Holland & Knight’s international private client practice head Leigh-Alexandra Basha.
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