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18 September 2025NewsCareersSarah Speight

Ropes & Gray loses 21-attorney group to join rival on growth spree

The exodus of patent trial litigators was ‘an easy choice’ due to their new employer’s ‘scale, vision and entrepreneurial culture’.

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