I will have to admit that, after going through the mounds of reports, that I'm rather impressed with young Fish & Richardson attorney Kip Mendrygal's efforts (Mendrygal did the "lion's share" of the day-to-day work and kept up with the minutia).

As one other commenter noted, young lawyers are aggressive and have much better retention skills than us older guys (I see the same thing in the IT world).

The only thing that disappoints me is that when the "product was sold" last summer, I was left with the impression we'd be looking at everybody--not just 200.

I'm also a little disappointed at the bill (in case no one has gathered that from the other blog entries).

But that's not Kip's fault.

Good work, Kip.