An article by Dennis Crouch in the Patentlyo.com blog looks at the TriReme v. AngioScore federal circuit court ruling about the ownership of potential patent rights, which the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly found initially vest with the inventor(s).

“Corporations must be getting somewhat annoyed with the antics of these pesky inventors,” Crouch writes. “TriReme v. AngioScore centers on an inventorship dispute involving Dr. Chaim Lotan who was previously a paid consultant with AngioScore but who later sold his rights to a competitor TriReme. In the lawsuit, TriReme sued for correction-of-inventorship of three AngioScore patents that do not currently list Lotan as an inventor.”

“So far in our law, the set of potential ‘inventors’ is limited to human persons (not corporate persons or machines or macaques). The initial right may, however, be transferred to through an assignment agreement.” according to the article.

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Noncompete agreements are becoming boilerplate in employment contracts, and for employees, there’s nothing good about them, writes Patrick Thibodeau in ComputerWorld. He writes that these agreements create enormous uncertainty about future job options and worry about launching a new business, and their use is spurring legislative fights in leading tech-industry states.

He refers to one recent survey, with more than 11,500 respondents, that was conducted by three law professors. That survey found that about one in five workers have signed noncompete agreements.The report also looks at legislation in several states that could address the use of the agreements.

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Dallas-based Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, has bolstered its corporate transaction and counseling services with the addition of former Fortune 500 general counsel David W. Black.

“Of the roughly 1 million attorneys in the United States today, there are only a handful in private practice after serving as GC at two Fortune 500 companies,” says Carrington Coleman Managing Partner Bruce Collins. “David possesses a profound and virtually unmatched understanding of the challenges facing corporate leaders of emerging, middle market and global companies.”

Black is the former general counsel for both BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), and most recently served as counsel for a private equity firm. He joins Carrington Coleman as a partner and will work with the firm’s corporate team on matters relating to a diverse range of business issues, including:

• Corporate governance
• Corporate finance and securities transactions
• Corporate compliance
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Venture capital and private equity
• Commercial banking and lending
• Retail and wholesale operations
• Information technology
• Business process outsourcing
• Managed software services
• Software licensing
• Marketing, branding and endorsement agreements
• Commercial real estate
• Hospital health care providers

In his prior role as general counsel, Black was responsible for global business operations including building a corporate legal department, handling compliance matters arising from investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice, and day-to-day corporate operational concerns. In addition to leading more than 150 acquisitions, he also directed KPMG’s $2.3 billion initial public offering in 2001, the second-largest in NASDAQ history at the time.

Carrington Coleman is a 46-year-old Dallas-based law firm focused on litigation and transactional services in the real estate, oil and gas, securities, construction, information technology, professional services and health care industries, among others. The firm also represents public entities and provides counsel in the areas of corporate transactions, corporate governance, banking, bankruptcy/restructuring, intellectual property, employment, and estate planning.

David J. Beck of Houston, partner in Beck Redden LLP, was recently honored by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas with the Luther (Luke) H. Soules III Award. Each year, the Litigation Section of the State Bar recognizes attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law and exemplary service to the Bar through outstanding professionalism and community impact.

Attorneys who earn the Luke Soules Award must meet the following criteria:

• Demonstrated commitment to equal justice under law
• Conduct promoting the rule of law
• Outstanding examples of professionalism
• Community impact as a result of the practice of law
• One or more significant contributions as a result of legal representation

Read more about the honor.

Thomson Reuters has unveiled Practice Point, which it calls “an innovative solution that delivers the most relevant content and tools for a given task or legal issue. It leverages key content, expertise and technology from Practical Law and Westlaw in an entirely new manner through task-based organization and editor-selected content.”

Practice Point was developed with the help of research and feedback from practicing attorneys and in-house counsel. It is  designed for attorneys whose practice primarily involves advising, negotiating, drafting legal documents, and ensuring that business dealings comply with relevant statutes and regulations, the company says in a release.

The release continues:

Practice Point is uniquely organized with menus arranged by practice area, task or project, to make it easier for attorneys to find exactly what they need. Its task-based organization draws content from the best of Westlaw and Practical Law that is specifically selected by expert attorney-editors. This ensures the most relevant information is most prominent, giving users the confidence that they are getting the most complete and relevant information for every task.

“Practice Point is another great example of innovating workflow solutions that leverage our unique content, tools and deep legal expertise in entirely new ways to help an important group of customers,” said Emily Colbert, vice president, Global Workflow Solutions, Thomson Reuters. “Practice Point is designed to be the touch point for your practice or legal department, directing you to the precise resources needed. The result is legal guidance, research and know-how, plus time-saving tools – all conveniently integrated into one solution and organized to provide greater time savings and ease of use. It provides another proof point for the Thomson Reuters approach to innovating for our customers by creating products that work like they do.”

Practice Point offers a truly integrated experience, allowing users to seamlessly access both Westlaw and Practical Law, placing information at their fingertips without the need to switch back and forth between the solutions. Practical Law content forms one of the cores of the Practice Point experience, providing users with access to thousands of up-to-date, practical know-how resources to manage their matter, including practice notes, standard documents and clauses, checklists, and toolkits, created and regularly updated by Practical Law attorney-editors. Practice Point also delivers Westlaw authoritative primary law, exclusive analytical materials, practice area insights, secondary sources, forms, and more.

Exclusive to Practice Point are the Rulebooks, an online collection of key federal laws, rules, regulations and agency materials to pinpoint and track rules and regulations covering securities offerings, SEC disclosures and reporting requirements, proxy solicitation and more. Additionally, it includes time-saving organizing features, such as foldering, favorites and search history.

SpringCM, a document and contract management solution for Salesforce customers, has announced that it has been named a Salesforce Platinum Cloud Alliance partner.

As a Salesforce Platinum Cloud Alliance partner, SpringCM gains access to executive sponsorships, marketing tools, field sales alignment and product alignment, including early access to user interface releases. The net result is greater SpringCM innovation for Salesforce customers, according to a SpringCM release.

“The Platinum Partner designation gives us access to a comprehensive and broad set of resources, people and support – from Salesforce product managers to developers, marketers and executives – and translates into direct benefits for our customers and partners,” said Greg Buchholz, CEO of SpringCM.

The release continues:

SpringCM’s next-generation contract lifecycle management (CLM) app helps companies streamline contract processes through automation, with fully integrated and configurable cloud contract generation, workflow, and processing capabilities within a secure searchable repository.

“Salesforce supports a vibrant and populous ecosystem of independent software vendors and consultants, and SpringCM joins an elite group of Salesforce partners,” said Karry Kleeman, Chief Revenue Officer of SpringCM. “The successful implementations of our document and contract management workflow solutions are the drivers for this achievement, and we’re honored to reach this milestone.”

“Salesforce customers are looking to accelerate revenue, reduce costs, and improve the productivity of sales reps using the Sales Cloud,” said Mike Festa, Vice President of Sales for SpringCM. “One way to do that is integrating Platinum Partner apps like Steelbrick’s CPQ and SpringCM’s CLM. Our partnership with Steelbrick in 2015 generated a tremendous ROI for our joint customers, and with the recent acquisition of Steelbrick by Salesforce, we see this partnership accelerating further.”

SpringCM grew its Salesforce.com contracts management customers by 400 percent in Q4 2015, driven by five CLM product releases in calendar 2015. More than 150,000 companies call the Salesforce ecosystem home, and many leverage the platform, including tools like SpringCM Manage It™, the No. 1-rated CLM app that enables sales and legal pros to easily manage and automate the contracts process, from contract generation and review, to approval and renewal.

On a superficial level, an Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas mineral lease is an ordinary two-party contract between the federal government and a willing third party, write Anthony C. Marino and C. Jacob Gower of Slattery, Marino & Roberts of New Orleans.

“However, an OCS lease implicates far more than the usual ‘four corners’ of the contract because lessees and their agents must navigate a labyrinth of rules and regulations to remain in compliance with their lease obligations. Given the large volumes of oil and gas production from the OCS, understanding this maze is a daunting, yet important, task,” they write.

Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney senior shareholder Paul Wojcicki once again led a team of nine Chicago SMSM shareholders and associates in editing the LexisNexis Practice Guide: Illinois Personal Injury Litigation, an annual publication that provides up-to-date information and practical pointers for attorneys of all experience levels, the firm announced.

Wojcicki and his colleagues also edited the 2014 edition of the Guide.

Joining Wojcicki on the project as contributing editors were Segal McCambridge shareholders Kevin Bugos and Mitch Morinec, and associates Lamis Eli, Anastasios Foukas, Matthew Kelly, Brian Nye, Christian Ryba, Joyce Williams and Jenni Young.

The Segal McCambridge team updated each of the Guide’s 14 chapters, which cover every step in the personal injury process, from initial client interviews to closing the case, as well as examine a range of substantive topics, such as liability theories and defenses, statutory actions and wrongful death and survival damages.

Read more about the Guide.

Akerman LLP announced the expansion of its national Corporate Practice Group with Chicago partners Paul Quinn and Mason “Max” Drake. They work in middle market M&A, private equity and investment funds.

Drake arrives from Greenberg Traurig, Quinn from Paul Hastings. The lawyers join Akerman less than a week after the firm announced it is more than doubling its physical footprint in Chicago. The office has grown fivefold from eight to 44 lawyers since opening just two years ago in February 2014, the firm said.

“Max and Paul are accomplished lawyers who bolster Akerman’s national strengths in middle-market mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, as well as investment fund formation,” said Mary Carroll, chair of the Corporate Practice Group. “Their arrival in Chicago extends the firm’s growing presence in a market of rising importance to our clients across several industry sectors, particularly financial services.”

Quinn represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in leveraged acquisitions and dispositions. In addition, he advises private companies and portfolio companies in connection with general corporate governance and management teams with respect to employment and compensation arrangements. Quinn also counsels distressed-focused private equity funds in connection with acquisitions through Section 363 asset sales processes, reorganizations in bankruptcy, and out-of-court restructurings, as well as private equity and venture capital funds in minority growth equity investments.

Quinn is a former certified public accountant and has worked with clients in the healthcare, financial services, technologies and manufacturing sectors. Quinn is co-resident in Akerman’s Chicago and Fort Lauderdale office.

Drake concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and investment fund formation. He also advises clients in connection with secured debt and structured finance transactions and employment and compensation arrangements. Drake counsels business entities and their owners through all stages of development, from startup, to growth financing, to ultimate sale. He also represents minority investors and management teams and individuals in related transactions. Drake is co-resident in Akerman’s Chicago and New York offices.

Wilson Elser announces that corporate attorney William Tolin Gay has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner.

Gay brings to Wilson Elser 30 years of experience representing domestic and international clients in their business matters. His current transaction-focused practice encompasses all aspects of corporate law, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, licensing agreements and technology transfers. He also has extensive experience working with domestic and foreign clients in securities, real estate, intellectual property and franchising, the firm says in a release.

“Bill is a welcome addition to the firm’s growing corporate law practice,” said David Eisen, regional managing partner of the Los Angeles office. “Over the past 12 months the firm has acquired a number of laterals in offices across the country focused on domestic and cross-border matters including transactions, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, joint ventures, and others.”

Fluent in Japanese language and law, having practiced in Tokyo for many years, Gay represents U.S. companies in their Japanese operations and Japanese companies in their U.S. operations. He also partners with immigration lawyers on obtaining immigrant investor visas primarily for Chinese clients.

Gay has earned an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell and was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, including earning its highest honor, “Lawyer of the Year,” in the Corporate Law category in Orange County, CA (2009, 2013, 2015).

Gay is an active member of the State Bar of California and is currently serving a three-year term on the International Law Section’s Executive Committee. In addition to holding this and other state bar positions over the years, Gay has assumed leadership roles with the Orange County Bar Association.

Gay earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington, including his J.D. and LL.M degrees from the School of Law (1982 and 1984, respectively); his M.B.A. degree from the Michael G. Foster School of Business (1983); and his B.A. degree in economics and East Asian studies (1978). He is a California Real Estate Broker certified by the California Department of Real Estate.

SpringCM, provider of a global document and contract management solution for Salesforce customers, has announced Track It for Deal Visibility. The app provides sales and legal teams, contract managers, and executives insight into the status of any sales document – SOWs, MSAs, contracts and others – via mobile and desktop devices, including Salesforce1, according to a release from the company.

“Track It follows each document, giving users an understanding as to where the process is being held up. Users get unparalleled visibility to avoid contract bottlenecks and to help accurately forecast when deals will close,” the release continues. “Data on how long each step has taken in the workflow can then be rolled up into deeper analytics.”

“SpringCM’s Track It was built to monitor documents at crucial points along the contract lifecycle and to deliver key insights,” said Greg Buchholz, CEO of SpringCM. “Sales reps know precisely what needs to happen to get their contracts signed. For example, if I’m on my iPhone, I can launch the Salesforce1 app, click on my 10 opportunities, and know exactly where the contract and other deal-related documents like MSAs and SOWs stand in each of these 10 opportunities. This kind of intelligence is a market differentiator and available only through the SpringCM platform.”

The release continues:Sa

Track It works in conjunction with File It™, a powerful sales content management system for easily creating, storing, organizing, accessing and sharing documents from Salesforce objects like Accounts, Opportunities, Cases and more. Leveraging SpringCM’s Manage It™ functionality, users can create complex MSAs by selecting legal language from templates and clause libraries to speed the contract lifecycle management process.

“One way to look at the impact the Track It functionality has on contract management is in the context of shipping and receiving a package,” Buchholz said. When you have sent a package or are anticipating receiving one, isn’t it valuable to use the shipping number to know exactly where it is and when it is expected to be received? Well, SpringCM brings that level of visibility to all customer-facing deal documents, with the added ability to take action to accelerate them when they get bogged down. Sales has often said that contracts go into a ‘black hole.’ We bring light back to the process.”

Track It can be used in Salesforce or with any other CRM software, or directly within the SpringCM platform. Track It also aggregates data around contract workflows, giving decision-makers and salespeople historical perspectives to inform present and future contract matters.

To learn more, see this video.

About SpringCM
SpringCM is a secure cloud platform that manages contracts and all types of documents seamlessly across desktop, mobile and partner applications like Salesforce. SpringCM goes beyond standard contract management software with advanced workflows that automate manual tasks and complex processes to shorten contract cycles from weeks to days, and speed time-to-revenue. For executives looking to strategically leverage contract management to deliver immediate savings and accelerate revenue, SpringCM is the No. 1-rated contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform because of its superior technology, diverse capabilities, and low total cost of ownership. Every day, more than 600 organizations, including best-in-class companies like NCR, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Wolters Kluwer, use SpringCM to streamline internal sales and legal operations, improve the customer experience and get more done, faster.

Wells Fargo has agreed to a $1.2 billion settlement to resolve a long-running mortgage dispute with the U.S. government, a move that slashes the bank’s 2015 profit by $134 million, reports The Charlotte News & Observer.

“The deal involves civil fraud claims brought in 2012 against the San Francisco-based bank, which the government had accused of ‘reckless’ underwriting practices that led to thousands of federally-insured loans defaulting,” according to the report. “The government said Wells Fargo’s false certifications that the loans met requirements for federal insurance resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance payouts.”

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Lincare, a major provider of in-home respiratory care and other services, will pay $238,900 in civil monetary penalties for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal authorities announced Wednesday, according to a report by Home Health Care News.

“This marks only the second time that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed civil monetary penalties for a HIPAA violation. The penalty was challenged but now has been upheld by an administrate law judge (ALJ),” the report says.

The breach involved a Lincare branch in Wynne, Arkansas, doing business as United Medical. Faith Shaw worked as a manager there from 2005 until 2009. Shaw had stored records of 278 patients in her car, which she left behind when she moved out of her marital home in 2008. Her husband reported finding those records to the OCR.

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A Minnesota jury has awarded former general counsel Chet Taylor $600,000 from the Feltl & Co. securities firm for defaming him by implying in a 2014 public statement that Taylor lost his job as a result of an enforcement action by a securities regulator, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

In his 2014 lawsuit, Taylor claimed that he left Feltl & Co. in good standing in 2012.

The report says that Feltl, following the jury verdict, also agreed to pay an additional $250,000 to avoid trying a subsequent punitive damages claim.

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Myanna Dellinger of the University of South Dakota School of Law has posted a discussion of a recent case in which a judge faulted Uber with presenting its drivers with a contract that was “likely, frankly, to engender confusion.”

Dellinger wrote about the case in the ContractsProf Blog.

The underlying case is a class action lawsuit against Uber for allegedly misclassifying its drivers as “independent contractors” instead of regular “employees.”

“Whether this is an example of deliberate strong-arming or intimidating the drivers into not joining the lawsuit or simply unusually poor contract drafting may never be known. Judge Chen did, however, order Uber to stop communicating with drivers covered by the class action suit and barred the company from imposing the new contract on those drivers,” Delinger writes.

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Connor Raso of the Securities and Exchange Commission has published a 67-page article that analyzes when and why administrative agencies avoid rulemaking procedural requirements such as the Administrative Procedure Act’s notice-and-comment process.

The summary of the rticle states that “original empirical analysis shows that agencies invoke statutory exemptions to avoid such rulemaking procedures more frequently as the threat of a lawsuit challenging that avoidance declines. In situations with a low threat of suit, agencies have avoided rulemaking procedures for more than 90 percent of rules. Such avoidance falls when the threat of suit increases. But even when litigation ensues, courts do not consistently require agencies to comply with rulemaking procedures. This spotty judicial enforcement, along with significant agency avoidance, casts doubt on the claim that rulemaking procedures have significantly burdened the rulemaking process.”

But agency avoidance suggests that rulemaking procedures do less than commonly thought to promote public deliberation in the rulemaking process, foster agency expertise, guard against agency arbitrariness, and make agencies accountable to Congress and to the public. “This suggests that agency avoidance of rulemaking procedures has some benefits, but also many costs,” Raso writes.

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In a case of first impression, the Third U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that federal bankruptcy courts may extinguish a Chapter 11 employer’s obligations under an expired collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 1113 of the Bankruptcy Code where such relief is necessary to permit reorganization, reports Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.

The case is In re: Trump Entertainment Resorts, 2016 WL 191926 (3d Cir. 2016).

“The Trump Entertainment case is significant for employers in reorganization, because it eliminates the need for union negotiations to reach an actual impasse before new terms can be implemented and, perhaps more importantly, it avoids the possibility that the NLRB could file a claim during the bankruptcy proceeding that would overturn a change in the employees’ terms and conditions of employment,” the firm writes.

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Zapproved Inc. announced demonstration of what it calls “a major technological advancement in electronic discovery by processing data at a rate exceeding one terabyte per hour” using Digital Discovery Pro.

The company says Digital Discovery Pro is a software application that taps the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud computing for corporate legal teams so they can process and review discovery data instantly for immediate insights to a case or internal investigation.

“Breaking the terabyte-per-hour processing barrier marks a new era for electronic discovery. Digital Discovery Pro was designed as modern software and with future customer needs in mind. We developed it to take full advantage of the AWS Cloud and have optimized it for scalability and affordability. Our software applies the amount of computing power required to accomplish any task quickly,” said Monica Enand, CEO and Founder of Zapproved. “The technology we’re providing gives in-house legal teams unprecedented control, access, and affordability over discovery.”

The company’s release continues:

The Z-Discovery Platform, and Digital Discovery Pro, in particular, is creating a more sustainable model for electronic discovery in the face of exponential data growth in corporate America. The system can adapt quickly to meet the demands of greater volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) without compromising performance or defensibility.

Digital Discovery Pro is the processing and instant access review application that is extremely easy to use regardless of the user’s experience with technology, with features like, drag and drop to upload data, and immediate processing that allows instant review and tagging. It is part of the Z-Discovery suite which includes: Zapproved’s flagship Legal Hold Pro™ product, the award winning e-discovery software used by corporate legal departments, and Data Collect Pro™ which is a cost-effective and user-friendly application for conducting targeted collections remotely and defensibly.

Corporate legal departments benefit from access to this technology in four important ways: instant access to information, complete control over their discovery processes, predictable affordability, and total readiness for litigation response now and in the future—giving corporate legal teams the power to “know now” and not be in the dark on status or insights that will help them manage their case strategy.

Zapproved’s Z-Discovery Platform is built from the ground up to specifically take full advantage of the efficiencies that cloud infrastructure offers. Z-Discovery runs on the flexible, scalable, pay-as-you-go AWS Cloud, can be deployed instantaneously, and is hyper-fast, with the elasticity to handle matters of any size.

To learn more, go to www.zapproved.com, call 1-888-806-6750, or send an email to info@zapproved.com. Please visit Zapproved at LegalTech New York at Booth 1400 from February 2-4, 2016.

About Zapproved Inc.


Founded in 2008 in Portland, Ore., Zapproved Inc. is a pioneer in developing cloud-based software for corporate legal departments. The Z-Discovery Platform returns power to in-house corporate legal teams and helps them navigate electronic discovery with minimal risk and cost, and it sets new standards for scalability and intuitive design. The company’s flagship product, Legal Hold Pro, is widely adopted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations and has earned recognition as the Best E-Discovery Legal Hold Product at the 2015 Legaltech News Innovation Awards, in the 2014 and 2015 Best of the National Law Journal and the 2013 and 2014 Best of Legal Times. Zapproved was recognized in the 2014 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. and was named as a “vendor to watch” in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery.

Dallas-based technology law firm, Munck Wilson Mandala LLP  announces the addition of Shain Khoshbin as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group.

Khoshbin focuses his practice on business disputes and commercial litigation, the firm said in a release. He has represented companies, partnerships, and entrepreneurs across the country on both sides of the docket. Khoshbin has worked with matters including hospitality management/franchising; intellectual property and unfair competition; and breaches of trust, fiduciary duties and complex contractual relationships.

“We are thrilled to have Shain return to the firm. He is a well-respected advocate who, over the course of his career, has built an impressive practice and has become a ‘go-to attorney’ for clients needing seasoned complex litigation counsel,” said William A. Munck, managing partner of Munck Wilson Mandala. “Shain adds substantial experience to our talented group of commercial litigators and trial attorneys. This is a very exciting time for our firm.”

“I have known Shain for over 20 years, and he excels at complex commercial litigation, “ said  Jamil Alibhai, Chairman of the firm’s Litigation Section. “He is a strong addition to Munck Wilson Mandala’s trial team.”

Khoshbin has been honored by Texas Super Lawyers for business litigation every year since 2007. He has been featured in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel and Business editions annually since 2008 and honored among the Super Lawyers Top 100 attorneys in Dallas/Fort Worth for 2011 and 2012. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Life Member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and Lifetime Charter Member of Rue Ratings’ “Best Attorneys of America.”

Patent litigators Mark C. Howland and Samuel E. Joyner have joined the Dallas-based law firm Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, marking an expansion of the firm’s existing intellectual property practice.

Howland and Joyner join the firm’s Dallas office as partners, working in Carrington Coleman’s existing copyright/trademark licensing, protection, and management services. The firm also advises clients on data privacy and cybersecurity matters in its Dallas and Longview offices, the firm said in a release.

Howland formerly was a partner in the intellectual property practice at Jones Day. Joyner is a former name partner at the Dallas technology litigation boutique Ross Joyner PLLC.

“Our clients rely on us to provide complete representation in matters most important to their businesses,” says Carrington Coleman Managing Partner Bruce Collins. “The addition of Mark and Sam will allow us to offer that same level of expertise to technology companies facing complex, high-stakes patent litigation.”

Read more about the new hires.