Foley & Lardner’s New Chair Sees Focus on Fast-Changing Sectors

Foley & Lardner’s new chair, Daljit Doogal, said he aims to better align the firm with clients in rapidly-changing sectors such as energy, manufacturing, health care and technology.

“Things in the marketplace are changing rapidly,” Doogal said in an interview. “In order to be competitive there are certain things you need to be doing that maybe you weren’t doing ten years ago or five years ago.”

Doogal, a corporate lawyer in the firm’s Detroit office, takes the leadership job in coming months as current chair Jay Rothman prepares to start in June as president of the University of Wisconsin system. ...