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Education
- Yale Law School (J.D., 2009)
- California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 2001), Thesis: Ancillary Ligand Effects: from Zironium (IV)-Catalyzed Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization to Platinum (II)-Mediated C-H Bond Activation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1996); Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Undergraduate Research; Phi Beta Kappa
Hong (Annita) Zhong is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP, where she is a member of the firm's Litigation/IP workgroup.
Ms. Zhong earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2009, where she served as a student director of the Community and Economic Development Legal Clinic and helped a local non-profit organization refinance its multi-million dollar commercial mortgage. In connection with the work at the legal clinic, she won second prize in the Chubb Competition for excellence in legal draftsmanship for academic year 2008-2009.
Ms. Zhong received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from California Institute of Technology ("Caltech"), and her B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"). While at MIT and Caltech, Ms. Zhong conducted research in the catalysis area and co-authored seven peer-reviewed journal articles.
Between graduate school and law school, Ms. Zhong worked as a senior research scientist at General Electric Company's Global Research Center ("GE GRC") in Niskayuna, New York. At GE GRC, She applied nanotechnology to the development of semiconductor packaging materials. The research resulted in many technical papers, two issued patents and a Whitney Technical Award.
Bar & Court Admissions
- 2009, California
