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Dec. 2, 2011

Freitas Tseng & Kaufman LLP

Robert E. Freitas left Orrick along with partners Kaiwen Tseng and Craig R. Kaufman, leaving behind a career devoted almost exclusively to patent defense work to work for plaintiffs, including non-practicing entities.

By Craig Anderson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

REDWOOD SHORES - Within patent litigation practice, the transition from defense attorney to plaintiffs' attorney is the rough equivalent of a corporate lawyer going to work for a labor union.

Yet that's the switch Robert E. Freitas, a 59-year-old patent attorney who spent more than three decades at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, made earlier this year when he started his own plaintiffs' fi... (continued)

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