As our firm celebrates 100 years, McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC attorneys Ed Sease and Heidi Nebel discuss the firm's legacy, practicing together, and building the quality law firm of MVS.
I knew one thing about my daughter and that was I had to leave her alone, let her make her own mark. Otherwise she wouldn't wear around. I exposed her to a lot of things, but I just pretty much let her figure out what she wanted and I remember well today she came to me and she said. Dad, I know you love litigation and I know you love being in the courtroom, but. I got my own thing I want to do. I just want to be Jean Jockey, which is what I call these biotech attorneys with and she. That. US Supreme Court case just fit her plans perfectly because you know it. All of a sudden it opened up pathways for the firm and for anybody that was a biotech trained lawyer that were never there before. So the demand just increased and increased and increased and. We hired as many of them we'd get. I had a hard time convincing her to come here because she was working for a firm called Arnold White and Turkey, which was probably the best and biggest. Patent boutique firm in in Houston, TX. And she clerked for them, but we got her back. We, and I think it's, it's been great for her ever since. What a, what a great opportunity building something and being a part of, of his legacy. It was surreal for sure, for absolutely surreal. And because most biotech kind of evolved out of chemical practice. So we, we ended up working together quite a bit. I went more my biology direction, he went more polypropylene and I'm in plant. Right, It is, but I'm never going to be a silver tongue litigator like him. I've watched him do it. I've second chaired him many times. That's I'm not that person, but I'm, I'm the patent attorney. I like drafting patent applications. I like it working administratively behind the scenes. But building this firm from when I joined, they were seven attorneys and now we're at 22 or three. You know, they're not all chemists like me or genetic biologists like her. We have electrical engineers. Mechanical Engineers, physics, you name it, we've we've got it. And it took a long time to build that, but. I think all of us are pretty proud of it. And I didn't spend. 49 years there for nothing. What, what joy to have him there for all the successes and all the failures, to be able to have his, his intellect always there at the ready. I've, I've been so blessed.
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1moProud to have spent part of my career working at MVS and part of the Biotech team.