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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Actual lawyers on this group?
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:26:38 GMT
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- Law is like any other business, there is good and there is bad.
- Part of the good is that it can be very intellectually stimulating.
- Part of the bad is that there can be quite a bit of drudge work,
- especially at the first, when you are the low man on the totem pole.
- Another good/bad is that often you are your own business. This means
- that you spend quite a bit of time prospecting for business. This is
- true even if (in the unlikely case anymore) that you join a big firm.
- I think that the difference between working for a big firm and a small
- firm is that early on, in the small firm/solo practioner situation, you
- starve while you are building your practice. In the larger firm, you
- don't starve at first, you are too busy to build your own practice,
- and then you wonder why you are let go, not making partner, when
- you didn't bring in the clients.
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- Patent law can be interesting. It depends on the practice. I think that
- forty years (or even twenty) of just drafting and prosecuting patents
- would bore anyone. Instead, what you do is mix it with copyright and
- trademark work, and do some litigation. Our practice seems to be about
- 50% litigation (IP only), and of the remainder, 25% patent, 20% trademark,
- and 5% copyrights, non-competes, etc.
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- Bruce E. Hayden
- Attorney at Law
- (303) 758-8400
- bhayden@csn.org
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