Brooks Kushman expands medical device practice group

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Brooks Kushman expands medical device practice group

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IP and technology firm Brooks Kushman has hired Kristin Murphy as a partner.

Murphy was previously managing partner of Rader Fishman & Grauer’s Bloomfield Hills, MI office. She will focus on domestic and foreign patent prosecution and IP litigation. She will also join Brooks Kushman’s medical device team. She is one of four attorneys that joined Brooks Kushman in the last month.

Before joining the firm, Murphy was a project engineer for a manufacturing company. She has experience with biopsy, ophthalmic and neurosurgical devices, robotic catheters for minimally invasive surgical procedures, spinal implants and tools for spinal surgery, and medical dressings.

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