Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has just announced its plan to launch a Silicon Valley office. This office will make the firm’s eleventh office and the eighth one in California. Partner Marc A. Sockol, who will manage this Palo Alto office, joins the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. Sockol was prevoiusly a partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.

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