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Author Topic: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?  (Read 1013 times)

Ruined_My_Life

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What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« on: 08-31-10 at 09:15 pm »
Advantages please.
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bleedingpen

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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #1 on: 09-01-10 at 09:01 am »
Better pay.  Possibly more "high-tech" disclosures.  Hotter secretaries.

That is about all that I can think of.  There are plenty of disadvantages as well. 
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MYK

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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #2 on: 09-01-10 at 09:15 am »
Ability to switch practices if IP activity dies down?  Although that wasn't really much help in 2008, since the rest of the legal market died down too.
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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #3 on: 09-01-10 at 05:35 pm »
It's not just the secretaries, ALL of the women are better looking. 

That's one of the few advantages I've seen.  Sometimes the pay is higher, but that's not always true.  I went from a gen'l practice firm to a boutique and increased my salary a great deal.

One thing gen'l practice firms teach you is how to deal with other lawyers and how different IP is from any other legal practice.  When I say "IP" I really mean patent law, because trademark law is not as different from the other legal practices.  If you work at a high powered boutique I think you tend to lose sight of how unbelievably full of shit the average non-patent lawyer is. 
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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #4 on: 09-03-10 at 05:36 am »
Quote from: stuffball on 09-01-10 at 05:35 pm
If you work at a high powered boutique I think you tend to lose sight of how unbelievably full of shit the average non-patent lawyer is. 

If there was a rep system on this forum, you would have just received positive rep.
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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #5 on: 09-03-10 at 10:23 am »
You may get more of an opportunity to do  personally satisfying, if it is your thing, pro bono work & work with some increidbly inspiring attorneys.  Social justice etc. 

Other than that I can only think of disadvantages based on my limited time practicing IP at big city, big firm.
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MYK

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Re: What are the advantages of working at a genl practice firm over a boutique?
« Reply #6 on: 09-03-10 at 02:08 pm »
Quote from: bleedingpen on 09-03-10 at 05:36 am
Quote from: stuffball on 09-01-10 at 05:35 pm
If you work at a high powered boutique I think you tend to lose sight of how unbelievably full of shit the average non-patent lawyer is. 

If there was a rep system on this forum, you would have just received positive rep.
Doubleplusgood.
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