Hutchison Law Group Opens Blacksburg Office

Raleigh, N.C.-based Hutchison Law Group, a leading provider of strategic business and intellectual property counsel to the Southeast’s life science and technology communities, has opened a Virginia office in Blacksburg, which will be operated by Ken Maready (right).

Hutchison Law Group, founded in 1996, represents technology and life science companies and provides venture capital financing advice, merger and acquisition counsel, licensing assistance, securities law advice and intellectual property protection, employment law advice and counseling, and other business legal services to a wide variety of businesses at all stages of development. It will be located in the Corporate Research Center, where many of this type of businesses operate in conjunction with Virginia Tech.

Maready, who has more than 10 years of experience, worked as an associate at Hutchison Law Group from 2002-2005. He later went on to serve as general counsel and director of strategic affairs at venture-backed Integrian Inc. He has been operating a law practice serving entrepreneurs and startups in Blacksburg and Roanoke most recently. “This expansion is a natural move for us,” says Hutchison member Helga Leftwich, “because Virginia regularly launches the kinds of technology-based innovative companies that we serve, particularly in the areas around its leading research universities, including Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia.” Maready earned his B.A and J.D., magna cum laude, from Wake Forest University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the law review. He provides legal counsel to entrepreneurs and technology companies, primarily regarding corporate, securities, contract and intellectual property issues, with a particular emphasis on startups, spinouts and angel or venture financings.