Dabney and Rabinowitz Join Fried Frank's Litigation Practice.Business Editors/Legal Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2003 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver shrive v. shrove or shrived, shriv·en or shrived, shriv·ing, shrives v.tr. 1. To hear the confession of and give absolution to (a penitent). 2. & Jacobson announced today that James W. Dabney and Stephen S. Rabinowitz will join Fried Frank as litigation partners, resident in the New York office. Both Mr. Dabney, 49, and Dr. Rabinowitz, 45, come to the firm from Pennie & Edmonds LLP, a leading intellectual property law firm that is ceasing the practice of law effective December 31, 2003, where they specialized in intellectual property litigation. "The addition of Jim and Stephen marks a rare opportunity to add the highest caliber of resources to our litigation practice," said Valerie Ford Jacob, co-managing partner of Fried Frank. "This expansion of our capabilities complements our substantial experience in large, complex litigations and broadens our range of legal services associated with patent, unfair competition and technology-related business activities and transactions." "Jim and Stephen are highly regarded by their clients, and they have developed a reputation as premier intellectual property litigation attorneys. They have worked together for many years. Their practice reinforces ours, as well as expands it. We welcome them to our team," said William G. McGuinness, chairman of the litigation department in Fried Frank's New York office. Mr. Dabney has been lead trial counsel in numerous actions and proceedings, including matters involving questions of validity, enforceability, registrability, infringement or noninfringement of U.S. patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and neighboring rights, antitrust and other commercial disputes. Before joining Pennie & Edmonds in 1989 as a partner, Mr. Dabney was deputy coordinator of the intellectual property group at Sullivan & Cromwell and served as a law clerk for the Hon. James C. Hill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Dabney received his JD, magna cum laude, in 1979 from Cornell Law School The Cornell Law School was formally opened in 1887, but was moved to its present-day location at Myron Taylor Hall in 1937. The law school building, an ornate, Gothic structure, was the result of a donation by Myron Charles Taylor, a former CEO of US Steel, and a member of the Cornell , where he was a member of the board of editors of the Cornell Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif An unincorporated national scholastic honor society in law. Its purpose is to foster excellence in legal scholarship and to recognize those who have attained high grades in law school or who have distinguished themselves in the teaching of law. . He received a BA in economics from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1976. Mr. Dabney is admitted to the bar in New York and New Jersey and to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court of the United States Final court of appeal in the U.S. judicial system and final interpreter of the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was ; the United States Court of Appeals The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system. A court of appeals decides appeals from the district courts within its federal judicial circuit, and in some instances from other for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits and the Federal Circuit; and the United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York; the District of Connecticut; the District of New Jersey; the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois; the Northern District of Indiana; the Western District of Michigan; the Eastern District of Wisconsin; and the District of the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Dr. Rabinowitz's practice is primarily in the area of biotechnology patent law. He has litigated patent cases pertaining to recombinant DNA technology recombinant DNA technology Recombining of DNA molecules from two different species that are inserted into a host organism to produce new genetic combinations that are of value to science, medicine, agriculture, or industry. , nucleic acid amplification technology, biochemical reagents such as enzymes and medical diagnostics. Dr. Rabinowitz received a JD, cum laude, in 1994 from Harvard Law School. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1981, receiving his MB, ChB from the University of Cape Town “UCT” redirects here. For other uses, see UCT (disambiguation). , South Africa and his PhD in immunology from the University of Oxford. Dr. Rabinowitz is admitted to the bar in New York and to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Northern District of California; the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a United States court of appeals. The Federal Circuit was created by Congress with passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982. The court is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and occupies the Howard T. ; and the United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property . Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson is a leading international law firm with approximately 550 attorneys in offices in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, London and Paris. It handles major matters involving, among others, corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and financings; litigation; real estate; antitrust counseling and litigation; bankruptcy and restructuring; benefits and compensation; environmental law; insurance; intellectual property and technology; securities regulation, compliance and enforcement; tax; and trusts and estates. |
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