Managing Partner Quits Suddenly, Firm Sends Out Snarky Email In Her Wake
Why did this managing partner just up and quit last Friday?
FITZPATRICK CELLA HARPER & SCINTO — BIO OF COLLEEN TRACY
Colleen Tracy
Partner, New York
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Colleen Tracy has extensive experience in all aspects of complex patent litigation in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biological, and biotechnological arts. Ms. Tracy has represented leaders in these technological fields, including Gilead, Sanofi, Bausch & Lomb, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, and Bristol-Myers Squibb litigations involving pharmaceutical compounds and compositions. Ms. Tracy also has extensive experience in litigating ANDA cases brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Ms. Tracy also has conducted IP due diligence and has provided licensing and IP counseling to the Firms’ clients.
She currently serves as the firm’s Managing Partner. She also presently serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee and is the head of the firm’s pro bono group that assists Sanctuary for Families, an organization that aids victims of domestic abuse.
While in law school, Ms. Tracy served as a student law clerk to the Honorable William G. Bassler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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Awards and Recognition
In the March 23, 2014 issue of The New York Times Magazine, Colleen Tracy was honored as a Top New York City Intellectual Property Litigator by Super Lawyers New York Metro Edition. She was also listed in the 2011-2013 issues of Super Lawyers: New York Metro Edition and is recognized as an IP Star in 2014 edition of Managing Intellectual Property. Ms. Tracy was selected as a top intellectual property law practitioner in the 2011-2014 editions of Best Lawyers in America. She was also named a Women Worth Watching 2013 by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Colleen was listed in Legal 500 2007 in Patent Litigation and Law 360 highlighted Ms. Tracy as a rising star in intellectual property law in the March 31st issue.
What Others Say:
“Colleen Tracy is a top tier litigator. She has great instincts for litigation and is an excellent strategist. I value her insights immensely.” (Best Lawyers 2014)
“outstanding trial work and experience within life sciences” (LMG Life Sciences 2013)
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“attracted client praise for the ‘overall depth of knowledge, dogged advocacy, and unfailing attentiveness to details of concern to the client’” (Legal 500 2007)
For information on the selection process, see: Legal 500.
Education
J.D., Seton Hall University, 1996, Seton Hall Law Review
B.S., Biology, cum laude, Manhattan College, 1992, Beta Beta Beta (National Biology Honor Society)
Bar Admissions
State of New York, 1997; State of New Jersey, 1997; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York; U.S. District Court of New Jersey; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Professional Activities
New York Intellectual Property Law Association; Women in Law Empowerment Forum (Board of Advisors); Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology (Advisory Board Member); Seton Hall University Law School, Board of Visitors (Member); Best Lawyers (Board of Advisors); The National Association for Female Executives (Member); Hon. William C. Conner Inn of Court (Master Member).
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