Finnegan Attorney Li Feng Named to Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC—Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP is pleased to announce that Li Feng, Ph.D. has been selected for the 2015 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). LCLD is a national organization of more than 220 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who are dedicated to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession.

“We are proud that Li has been chosen to be part of LCLD’s prestigious Fellow Program,” said Finnegan managing partner James B. Monroe. “This program provides an opportunity for Li to further strengthen her leadership skills, while fostering and supporting a diverse environment within the legal profession.”

As an associate in Finnegan’s Washington, DC office, Ms. Feng focuses her practice on patent prosecution, opinion preparation, due diligence, interferences, and patent litigation. She joins a class of more than 175 attorneys from around the country who have been selected as LCLD Fellows for 2015.

Launched in 2011 and having trained more than 600 mid-career attorneys, the LCLD Fellows program’s mission is to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms and corporate legal departments. Over the course of the year-long program, participants will be challenged to improve their professional brand, build relationships that enhance professional development, participate in corporate learning experiences, and sharpen stewardship and leadership skills. According to LCLD President Robert J. Grey, Jr., the LCLD Fellows Program offers participants “an extraordinarily rich year of relationship building, virtual and in-person training, peer-group projects, and extensive contact with LCLD’s top leadership.”

Contacts
James B. Monroe, Managing Partner 
james.monroe@finnegan.com

About Finnegan

Finnegan is one of the largest IP law firms in the world. From offices in Washington, DC; Atlanta; Boston; Palo Alto; Reston; London; Shanghai; Taipei; and Tokyo, the firm practices all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Finnegan also represents clients on IP issues related to international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition. For additional information on the firm, please visit www.finnegan.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

With more than 220 members, LCLD is a national organization made up of chief legal officers and managing partners of the leading corporations and law firms in the country. The Fellows initiative is one of several launched by LCLD since the organization’s founding in 2009. Other programs include a national mentoring initiative serving more than 2,000 mentors and mentees, a 1L Scholars program involving more than 200 first-year law students, and special programming for Members through CLE presentations and other platforms. For more information, please visit www.lcldnet.org.