Wake Up Call: Latham Five-Partner IP Lawyer Group Joins Cleary

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• Cleary Gottlieb hired a team of five intellectual property partners from Latham & Watkins to join the firm’s New York, Washington, and California offices. The hires include Clement Naples, Giri Pathmanaban, and Bert Reiser. (Cleary Gottlieb)
• The February bar exam’s multiple-choice results were the lowest on record and suggest that pass rates for the entire test will be down. The average score on the 200-question Multistate Bar Exam was 130.8, which sank below the previous low of ...