Edward J Kelly Has Joined LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne
12 November 2012
Prominent trademark and patent attorney Edward J Kelly has joined LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne (LGP), a Monterey, California-based firm that specialises in IP protection and enforcement, as of counsel. Kelly, who will head the firm’s foreign operations from Bangkok, most recently was a partner at Tilleke & Gibbins. He had previously announced a move to become chief international operations office for Lahore, Pakistan-based United Trademark and Patent Services.
“We’ve known and worked with Ed a long time and he will fit well with our firm,” said LGP partner David LaRiviere. “He is simply one of the best in the world at pragmatic IP enforcement and he gives us a very strong hand.”
Kelly will shuttle between Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Monterey, says a firm representative. “LGP is not a mega-firm,” Kelly said. “But they have an intensity of focus I don’t see in the larger practices, and that’s what makes them one of the elite IP law firms.”
In addition to his intellectual property work, Kelly and his wife, Sasithorn “May” Jarukdee, have been heavily involved in efforts to end human trafficking, and have been featured in several documentary films and news reports produced by the BBC, ABC and the National Geographic Society.
LGP is based in central California with operations in Asia and agents in Europe, South America, and Australia.
