Polsinelli has made four lateral additions to its Texas offices this week.
On Tuesday, the Kansas City law firm announced that a group of three international trade law experts in Dallas have joined the firm. The group is headlined by former Akerman partner Michelle Schulz, who will chair the Polsinelli international trade and customs practice. Associate Luis Arandia, Jr. from Givens & Johnston PLLC and trade analyst Matthew Savage, also from Akerman, have made the move as well.
The move reunites Schulz with her former Gardere colleague Joyce Mazero, who departed Gardere after its merger with Foley and now co-chairs Polsinelli’s global franchise and supply network practice. Schulz currently serves as a senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative on the Industry Trade Advisory Committee for Aerospace.
On Wednesday, Polsinelli announced that former patent examiner Jonathan Spivey has joined the firm’s Houston office as a shareholder from Bracewell.
Spivey, a graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, concentrates his practice on complex patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation and appeals. He is a former clerk for the Honorable H. Robert Mayer, the former chief judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.