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Spotlight: Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property (IP) team helps leading technology organizations do what they do best: innovate. Together, we provide inventors, brands, and high-tech companies alike with multidisciplinary, end-to-end IP legal solutions, including strategic counseling, enforcement, procurement, and transactional.
Our national, cross-disciplinary team of intellectual property attorneys, patent agents, engineers, and other professionals combines the technical knowledge, hands-on business experience, and legal insight needed to help our clients manage, acquire, protect, and leverage the full value of their vital IP assets — including patents, design rights, trade secrets, trademarks and trade dress, and copyrights.
We have one of the leading and most sophisticated cross-technology Patent Counseling and Prosecution Practices globally, made up of a highly diverse team of attorneys, agents, and engineers whose advanced education and professional experience in key fields enables us to understand our clients’ innovations and business objectives inside and out while handling their sophisticated and complex needs across the full IP lifecycle.
Learn More About Our Intellectual Property Department and Practice Groups
Johnson Controls–Foley IP Law Fellowship
Two leaders in IP — Johnson Controls and Foley — have partnered to create the Johnson Controls–Foley IP Law Fellowship for law students interested in a career in IP law. The fellowship combines two outstanding internships — one in-house with Johnson Controls’ legal department and the other with Foley. Importantly, it does so with one exciting outcome in mind: the opportunity to become a new IP associate with Foley upon law school graduation.
Hear From Our 2022/2023 Johnson Controls–Foley IP Law Fellow
Why Foley
At Foley, people are our greatest asset, and we recognize that our success as a firm depends on our ability to attract, develop, and retain high-quality attorneys.
We invest in our people over the arc of their careers by providing the opportunities and resources necessary to build experience, advance personal and professional goals, forge meaningful connections, and be the best version of themselves.
To learn more, visit Careers on Foley.com and peruse our recruiting brochure and overview to get a better sense of life at Foley. Also, take a look at our 2022 Talent Year in Review to learn about some of our key initiatives last year.
Summering at Foley
Our Summer Associate Program is designed to introduce first- and second-year law students to a career in the legal industry and give them a sense of what life at Foley is like and what to expect as an associate here. Spending the summer with us means more than stacks of briefs and endless document review. It means exposure to cutting-edge legal issues and high-profile matters, connections and engagement, community service, professional development, camaraderie, leadership, and much more — all starting on day one.
We invite all 1L candidates who are interested in pursuing a career at Foley to submit an application now. You can also visit our Careers page to apply. All applicant materials will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting this month.
Hear From Our People
We encourage you to listen to our popular podcast, The Path & The Practice. Each episode highlights the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives our attorneys bring to the practice of law. Hear from two of our recent summer associates, Allison Zweng and Ivory Djahouri, and listen to some of our special recruiting-related episodes, including Episode 100: Recruiting Roundtable and Episode 56: All Things Summer Associate Recruiting. You can browse the complete The Path & The Practice episode playlist here.
Also, check out our blog, Foley Career Perspectives, which highlights these podcasts and other content showcasing our people, our culture, and various initiatives related to legal recruiting; professional development; diversity, equity, and inclusion; attorney coaching; pro bono; community involvement; and more. You can read how our 2023 summer associates got to know the firm and their peers in this Foley Career Perspectives post.
Our Platform
Foley is an Am Law 50 law firm consistently ranked among top-tier practices. With over 1,100 lawyers in 25 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, our market-leading platform includes Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Litigation.
Adding depth to our bench strength, we focus on four primary sectors: Energy, Health Care & Life Sciences, Innovative Technology, and Manufacturing. We’re taking the knowledge we have from our primary sectors and bringing it to our clients in a consultative manner. Our aim is to increasingly see things from their perspective and bring our legal skills to the forefront.
DEI at Foley
We endeavor to be a community where people can reach their full potential. For that reason, we’re relentlessly focused on creating a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic self regardless of ethnicity, background, belief, orientation, gender expression, or personal need. To achieve this, we’re weaving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the very fabric of the firm and investing in and supporting all our talent. We strive for diversity not only in terms of our people but also in the unique ideas and perspectives each person brings to the firm. Learn More About Our DEI Efforts
One of the many ways we demonstrate our commitment to fostering diverse legal talent is through our involvement with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). Foley is proud to be an LCLD Member organization and to have been a 2022 Compass Award winner. First-year law students who receive and accept an offer from Foley have the opportunity to apply for the 1L LCLD Scholars Program where they will receive valuable professional experience and unique opportunities for career development and relationship building. We also offer a Diversity Fellowship Program for second-year law students. This opportunity for 2Ls who share our values and demonstrate a commitment to promoting DEI includes a $50,000 fellowship.
Stay Connected
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