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McGuireWoods seeks an Associate to join its Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Patent Litigation Group. This Group provides pharmaceutical and life sciences clients with strategic counseling directed towards long-term legal, regulatory and business strategies for developing and launching ANDA approved generic pharmaceutical products.

McGuireWoods’ Intellectual Property department and individual lawyers are recognized by Chambers USA, IAM Patent 1000, The US Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and Benchmark Litigation as top IP attorneys nationwide. We enable companies and individuals to maximize returns from their creative, technological and business endeavors while defending against inbound challenges. With advanced degrees in engineering and the applied sciences, our team handles significant disputes in key patent courts across the United States. Clients value our ability to quickly analyze and understand relevant technologies across virtually every sector of the global economy, and repeatedly turn to us for bet-the-company patent litigation. 

In the Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industries, our group represents manufacturers of generic drug manufacturers facing patent infringement actions filed in connection with either their ANDA or biosimilar application. We work closely with clients in resolving ANDA-related issues before the Food & Drug Administration, including labeling issues, issues with API, patent listing disputes, and issues pertaining to new drug and marketing exclusivities. Our offering is further boosted by the significant multidisciplinary expertise of our Health Care Life Science Industry Team experts with additive experience at the FDA and Federal Trade Commission. Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers our attorneys a competitive salary with hours and merit bonus opportunities, billable hours credit for pro bono work, and a hybrid in office/remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance.

• Qualified candidates will have 4 to 8 years of prior patent litigation experience to include prior Hatch-Waxman litigation experience.
• Preferred background will include an undergraduate degree in chemistry, biology, molecular biology, chemical engineering, pharmacy or biochemistry.  
• Strong writing, analytical, legal research skills and excellent academic credentials required. 
• Please submit cover letter, resume, and law school transcript. 

This is a national search. The position can be filled in any city with a McGuireWoods office.

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About McGuireWoods LLP

McGuireWoods is a great place to launch your career. As an international law firm with 21 offices, we bring on high performers with strong academic credentials and experience who are dedicated to client service, teamwork and excellence. In turn, we deliver a rewarding, supportive firm culture focused on your success, growth and development. McGuireWoods is proud of its summer associate program. As a summer associate, you have the resources and training to develop professionally and perform challenging, sophisticated work early on regardless of your office location — rare opportunities not offered at most other firms. Each summer associate is assigned a supervisor and mentor who introduces them to lawyers in their office and across the firm. Summer associates choose the projects they want to work on based on their practice area interests and they have opportunities to collaborate with McGuireWoods lawyers across the country. Summer associates attend client meetings, depositions, corporate closings, trials and appellate arguments. They also prepare research memoranda and draft pleadings, briefs and corporate transaction documents. In addition, summer associates are involved in:... •special training opportunities; •social events and networking; and •a firmwide summer associate retreat. Summer associates also participate in McGuireWoods’ Pro Bono Mentor Program, which offers them the opportunity to work on a pro bono matter for a client. McGuireWoods makes meaningful investments in the future of diverse legal talent. We promote inclusion in legal education and leadership roles in the profession through programs such as the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Scholars Program. We also contribute substantially — time, talent and funding — to people and organizations that foster diversity and inclusion in our profession and our communities. Our clients benefit from the different life experiences and backgrounds of our teams. We have seven internal networks that support the success of our diverse and women lawyers and serve as a community to network and grow as professionals and as individuals. We are committed to our clients and communities. Our commitment to help clients includes those without adequate means for high-level representation. Our focus on pro bono work and other service to the communities where we live and work provides us with the chance to give back and gain valuable experience while fostering camaraderie with colleagues and clients. We also focus on the quality of life and the health and well-being of our people. We believe balance makes our work lives better, so we invest in the tools and offer the flexibility you need to succeed. The firm strives to attract standout individuals who are good at what they do and are good people. We know you can choose to come — and to go. That’s why we work so hard to bring out the best in you. Everyone contributes, everyone’s ideas are valued. We seek out, celebrate and reward ideas for improving our firm and setting the service standard other firms follow. We don’t rest on our achievements. That means our best keeps getting better. If you’re committed to our core values of excellence, integrity, client service, diversity and inclusion, collegiality and community, join us. Visit mcguirewoods.com to learn more.

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