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Paul Weiss advances West Coast expansion plans with trio of litigation partners from Orrick
21 January 2021
Paul Weiss advances West Coast expansion plans with trio of litigation partners from Orrick
New York firm also brings in corporate partner from Kirkland & Ellis to bolster new San Francisco office
By kropic1; Shutterstock Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is pressing ahead with its plans to open a San Francisco office with the hiring of four experienced Northern California partners. Melinda Haag, Walter Brown and Randy Luskey join the firm’s litigation department from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, with Jeremy Veit joining the corporate department from Kirkland & Ellis. The four new arrivals will form the foundation of the firm’s Bay Area expansion, alongside litigation partner Meredith Dearborn who joined in the summer from Boies Schiller Flexner when Paul Weiss first revealed its West Coast expansion plans.
Biden names Bangladeshi-American Zayn Siddique senior aide to White House deputy chief of staff
The US President-elect Joe Biden has named Zayn Siddique, a Bangladeshi-American, senior aide to the incoming White House deputy chief of staff.
“It’s obviously good news for all the Bangladeshi-Americans,” said former US ambassador Osman Siddique, currently working as a senior advisor in Biden’s transition team.
Zayn is “very talented” and proved himself through his work in different capacities in the US administration, Osman told bdnews24.com on Thursday.
Zayn is the chief of staff for the Domestic and Economic Team of the Biden-Harris Transition. He was also a member of Vice President-elect Harris’s prep team for the 2020 Vice-Presidential Debate.
Biden names Bangladeshi-American Zayn Siddique for key White House position
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Bangladeshi-American Zayn Siddique has been named by President-elect Joe Biden for a key position in the office of the White House deputy chief of staff.
According to a series of new announcements made by the Biden Transition Team on Wednesday, Siddique has been named senior advisor to the White House deputy chief of staff
He becomes the first Bangladeshi-American to be named to a senior position in the incoming Biden administration.
Originally from Bangladesh and raised in New York, Siddique is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, according to a press release issued by the Biden Transition Team.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Podcast on developments relating to component-level SEP licensing, particularly the referral of a set of questions to the CJEU by a German court
About a year after my Brussels conference on the component-level licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs), I invited the members of the first panel discussion of that conference to produce a podcast
for a general update on key developments surrounding the component-level licensing of SEPs since our November 2019 panel, and
to discuss in depth the implications of the Dusseldorf Regional Court s decision to refer to the Court of Justice of the EU a set of key legal questions (relating to component-level licensing as well as the application of the