Brown Rudnick Executes Largest Group Hire in Firm History — 34-Lawyer IP Team from HSF Kramer, New Silicon Valley Office

Brown Rudnick's acquisition of a 34-lawyer IP litigation team from Hogan Lovells Cadwalader — led by seven partners including Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka, James Hannah, Kristopher Kastens, Michael Lee, Jonathan Caplan, and Aaron Frankel, spanning Silicon Valley and New York — is the firm's largest group hire on record, announced August 5 simultaneously with the opening of a Silicon Valley office. The move is significant on multiple dimensions: it is a direct extraction of talent from the recently merged Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, suggesting that the integration period of large mergers creates predictable lateral vulnerability windows; IP litigation at the patent-intensive end is a practice area where AI-assisted prior art analysis and claim construction support have created genuine throughput advantages; and the Silicon Valley geographic footprint is the most contested territory in legal-market share among platform-IP-litigation firms. Brown Rudnick's ability to land a group of this scale positions it as a credible national IP litigation player in a way it was not 90 days ago.