IP Laterals Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte Make Headlines with Move to Foley

Foley & Lardner LLP partners Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte are featured across legal press for their recent move to the firm, including in the Law360 article, “Foley & Lardner Gains Two Perkins Coie IP Partners.”

The duo told Law360 Foley attracted them because their practice’s continued growth, namely with technologies like machine learning and financial technology, meshes well with Foley’s interdisciplinary, national platform that allows for greater collaboration with attorneys offering deep experience in these fields.

Zhang said the pair were also drawn to Foley’s investment in patent agents. “[Foley’s] always had patent agents for a really long time, and so have a lot of firms, but they’re really kind of hiring one offs,” he explained, highlighting the firm’s formal patent agent program. “The idea is to hire them straight out of engineering school or straight out of either undergrad or graduate school and that way there isn’t that much to do on the training side for the technology.”

Schulte added that the duo also wanted to make the jump because it was a little easier for them to get work done. “It’s a little less bureaucratic, there’s more tools already ready for us that we don’t have to start to recreate and build,” he said.

Coverage of their move to Foley also appeared in Bloomberg Law here and here, The Global Legal Post, The National Law Journal here and here, Legal Era, The American Lawyer, and Westlaw Today.