Thank you for all your feedback!
Yes, I'd like to do prep/pros. The informational interviews are a great idea. We have very a small IP dept. I know we've used Knobbe in the past, but am not sure who we use now - I'll look into this. I know we also won an infringement suit many years ago - I'll seek out who represented us for that as well.
From what I've read on this forum over the last few days, I believe I'm going to have a harsh reality check in terms of work difficulty & hours once I'm an attorney. When I was single and in my 20s I wouldn't have minded this, but I have a family now and am in my 30s, so I'm sure it will be very hard giving up my comfortable engineering lifestyle. Who knows, I may be wrong - I know many of you love what you do and don't mind the mentally strenuous nature of your jobs, so perhaps that could be the case for me as well. Worst case, I can always go back to engineering if I find life as a patent attorney not working out.
Yes, I'd like to do prep/pros. The informational interviews are a great idea. We have very a small IP dept. I know we've used Knobbe in the past, but am not sure who we use now - I'll look into this. I know we also won an infringement suit many years ago - I'll seek out who represented us for that as well.
From what I've read on this forum over the last few days, I believe I'm going to have a harsh reality check in terms of work difficulty & hours once I'm an attorney. When I was single and in my 20s I wouldn't have minded this, but I have a family now and am in my 30s, so I'm sure it will be very hard giving up my comfortable engineering lifestyle. Who knows, I may be wrong - I know many of you love what you do and don't mind the mentally strenuous nature of your jobs, so perhaps that could be the case for me as well. Worst case, I can always go back to engineering if I find life as a patent attorney not working out.