Partner Aydin Harston has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Membership is limited to just one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board.
The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. ABF Fellows hail from nearly 40 countries and hold a wide variety of influential roles.
Originally a scientist with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, Aydin Harston helps clients grow, protect, and defend their innovations. He counsels and advocates for his clients in both prosecuting patents and managing patent portfolios as well as in the courtroom, where he is an experienced litigator. Based on his own research path and obtaining both novel and non-obvious results, he now focuses on helping inventors protect their discoveries. He devises creative and simple solutions and explanations for complex situations that enable clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, health technology, and chemical fields achieve their goals as efficiently as possible. Aydin has been recognized as a leading intellectual property attorney by IAM, Best Lawyers, World Intellectual Property Review, LMG Life Sciences, Super Lawyers, and Martindale Hubbell. Aydin is an editor of and frequent author on Rothwell Figg’s Biosimilars Law Bulletin and RF EMerge.
The ABF Fellows serve as stewards of the American Bar Foundation, an independent, nonprofit research organization which conducts short- and long-term socio-legal research projects. The ABF’s mission is to serve the legal profession, the public, and the academy through empirical research, publications, and programs that advance justice and the understanding of law. The ABF’s research falls under one of three categories: learning and practicing law; protecting rights and accessing justice; and making and implementing law. The Foundation is committed to broad dissemination of research findings to the organized bar, scholars, and the general public.
