Akerman’s former national intellectual property practice chair, Michael Switzer, has joined a boutique Chicago firm that bills itself as a technology-focused alternative to Big Law.
Switzer joined 16-attorney Actuate Law this month alongside three other former Akerman partners: Stacy Baim, Mark Anderson, and Peter Hawkins.
It is something of a homecoming for the group. Actuate was founded in early 2018 by a separate group of lawyers from Akerman and Katten Muchin Rosenman.
The four-partner group joining Actuate had been part of the eight-lawyer group that founded Akerman’s Chicago office in 2014. That group of lawyers joined from Ulmer & Berne ...
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