Stradley Ronon Attorney Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of "The Philadelphia Lawyer"

PHILADELPHIA (August 18, 2010) - Stradley Ronon attorney Kim R. Jessum has been appointed as editor-in-chief of The Philadelphia Lawyer – the official quarterly magazine of the Philadelphia Bar Association. As editor-in-chief, Jessum will review and oversee all submissions for publication, in addition to addressing the magazine’s readership of attorneys, judges and politicians in each issue’s “From the Editor” column.

As of counsel in Stradley Ronon’s intellectual property practice group, Jessum focuses on patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters. She represents chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients in both intellectual property litigation and transactional matters.

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Counseling clients since 1926, Stradley Ronon has helped private and public companies – from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations – achieve their goals. With six offices and more than 195 attorneys located throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Stradley Ronon is the only eastern Pennsylvania member of Meritas, the world’s largest affiliation of independent commercial law firms.