Wake Up Call: Davis Polk Hires FTC’s Chief IP Counsel

In today’s column, Clark Hill grabbed a five-lawyer immigration firm in Los Angeles; a report says woman, minority, and LGBTQ+ lawyers are still having a hard time breaking through to equity partner; and several firms are advising in the bankruptcies of big supermarket chains.

• Leading off, Davis Polk hired the Federal Trade Commission’s former chief counsel for intellectual property, Suzanne Munck, who among other things led the agency’s recent revision of its antitrust guidelines for the licensing of intellectual property. Munck joins the firm as counsel in its antitrust and competition group in Washington. In her 12 years at the ...