Greg Latham
Founder and Director, Intellectual Property
Consulting, LLC
Intellectual Property Consulting, or IPC, as it’s known, was a one-man firm from its launch in 2007 until 2015. Since then, founder and director Greg Latham has focused the boutique law firm exclusively on intellectual property services — patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
Since 2015, the firm has grown sixfold. It is the largest boutique law firm offering specialized IP services along the Gulf Coast, from Houston, Texas to Jacksonville, Florida.
“Patent, trademark and copyright law is almost exclusively federal law, so the laws don’t change, for the most part, when you go from state to state,” Latham said.
Growing up in the small, central Illinois town of Clinton, Latham thought he’d eventually practice law in Chicago, but after a few months at Tulane, he changed his life’s plan.
“I was in my first year of law school and knew I wasn’t leaving New Orleans,” he said. “The culture, the music, the food — I was one of those people who just easily got sucked in.”
The growth of technology-related industries in New Orleans gives Latham reason to be excited about the city’s economy.
“There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. The last five to six years have been incredible, not only the growth of the business structure, but you can see the excitement from young people moving into the city and the young people staying here after they graduate,” he said. “New Orleans is getting national recognition in publications and continuously ranking in the top 10 in various economic and technology based surveys and polls. I’m very excited, very optimistic.”
