McCarter & English Partner Seeks Pendulum Swing Toward Invention-Facilitating IP Protection to Benefit Economy, Society BOSTON (Dec. 1, 2015) – Erik Paul Belt, an intellectual property litigator who represents rights-holders and alleged infringers alike, has become president of the Boston Continue Reading
McCarter & English Promotes Six to Partnership
NEWARK - McCarter & English, LLP has named six new partners, all of whom had been associates at the firm. The new partners hail from three of the firm’s nine offices and include two Intellectual Property/Information Technology attorneys and one each from the firm’s Business Litigation; Continue Reading
Cynthia Keliher named President of New England Chapter of CoreNet Global
McCarter & English is proud to announce that Boston-based Real Estate partner Cynthia Keliher has been named President of the New England Chapter of CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate professionals with more than 8,000 members around the world managing more than $1.2 Continue Reading
McCarter Partners Named Top New Jersey Super Lawyers 2015
Super Lawyers has recognized two of McCarter & English’s Newark-based partners for the organization’s highest levels of peer recognition in New Jersey: Susan A. Feeney, as one of the Top 50 Women New Jersey Super Lawyers 2015, and David R. Kott, as one of the Top 100 New Jersey Super Continue Reading
The NJBIZ Power 100: The Most Powerful People in New Jersey Business
From NJBIZ's summary: He heads McCarter & English, a top firm in Newark and the state. “They are involved in a lot of big things and always do a good job,” one insider said. And their influence only figures to increase with the acquisition of David Sorin’s boutique firm in East Brunswick. Sorin Continue Reading
Law360’s Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs
A Massachusetts federal jury sided with lions McCarter & English LLP, Venable LLP, Williams & Connolly LLP and Minerva Law PC when it handed AstraZeneca PLC and Ranbaxy Inc. a win in the first pay-for-delay class action trial since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed the patent settlements could Continue Reading
Jury Hands AstraZeneca Win in Nexium Pay-For-Delay Case
A Massachusetts federal jury sided with defendants AstraZeneca PLC and Ranbaxy Inc. in the first pay-for-delay class action trial since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed the patent settlements could face antitrust scrutiny, finding that AstraZeneca would never have allowed a generic Nexium to launch Continue Reading
McCarter & English Grows VC Bench with SorinRand Merger
McCarter & English LLP, New Jersey's oldest law firm, said Monday it is combining with East Brunswick-based SorinRand LLP in a move that will expand SorinRand’s depth and breadth of resources and enhance McCarter’s venture capital and technology practice groups with additional expertise.The Continue Reading
Teva, AstraZeneca Say Court Rulings Kill Nexium Delay Suit
Drugmakers Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and AstraZeneca PLC on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss claims that Teva purposely delayed marketing a generic version of Nexium by two years, saying the judge’s recent rulings blow a hole in a class of drug buyers’ antitrust suit Continue Reading
Chairman Mike Kelly has been named a 2014 Delaware Super Lawyer
McCarter & English, LLP announced today that Mike Kelly, Chairman, has been selected as a Delaware Super Lawyer for 2014. He was named as a Super Lawyer in recognition of his work in Civil Litigation Defense. The list appears in the June 2014 issue of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, a Continue Reading