Polsinelli to Absorb IP Group from Novak Druce

By Christopher Brown, Bloomberg BNA

Kansas City-based Polsinelli PC is set to absorb the IP group of Houston-based Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg LLP.

Polsinelli, which has around 750 attorneys in 17 offices spread around the U.S., will gain 40 or more of Novak Druce’s 80 attorneys, according to Patrick C. Wooley, head of Polsinelli’s IP practice group. The combination will give Polsinelli one of the largest IP practice groups in the country, he said.

Wooley told Big Law Business that the IP practices at the two firms were complementary rather than overlapping.

“Our strength has been in chem, biotech ...