About the Life Sciences Practice

The Life Sciences Practice is a multi-disciplinary team of legal professionals who practice in the following areas:

• Intellectual property protection, opinion drafting, and transactional due diligence
• Technology licensing
• Investment funding
• Regulatory compliance and standardization
• Government Affairs
• Post-market compliance and product marketing
• Litigation and enforcement

As part of a general practice law firm, the Life Sciences Practice works closely with attorneys having a depth of experience with corporate formation and governance, international, financial services, antitrust and unfair competition, real estate, non-competes and trade secrets, labor, employee benefits, bankruptcy and environmental legal matters. Our attorneys, scientists and consultants have the resources to represent life sciences organizations in virtually every aspect of technology development from "benchtop to bedside."

Many of our professionals also have prior experience in conducting scientific research in academics and industry, and managing entrepreneurial enterprises. Our combined experiences provide us the ability to assist clients in developing comprehensive technology commercialization strategies in technical fields such as agriculture, alternative energy, biologics, biopharmaceuticals, small molecule pharmaceuticals, chemistry, medical devices, and veterinary technologies.

The Life Sciences Practice is committed to assisting our clients develop more effective strategies for speeding innovations to market while enhancing the potential for enhanced intellectual property protection, license revenue, venture capital funding, regulatory approval, sales revenue and reaching the market more efficiently. The diagram above illustrates the Life Sciences Practice's approach toward developing a commercialization strategy that leverages collaborator feedback, business model information, and other data, all of which are considered at each step in an integrated process.