Patent Attorneys and Job Prospecting
Posted February 23, 2006 10:03 PM
Strangely for a copyright and trademark guy, I get along pretty well with patent attorneys. Look at the new venture with Rethink(IP) for example.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what science or engineering even is -- I studied literature and cinema in undergrad and took every copyright, trademark, international trademark, copyright and the constitution, ip in a digital age course I could get my hands on in law school -- I even avoided Evidence and Crim Pro.
Now, I live in Philly (suburbs) and apparently all the IP attorneys here are either involved with patents or pharmaceuticals.
My wife even met an extremely generous (with his time) patent attorney who's talked with me about the philly law landscape. If you need a patent attorney in Philly you should look him up -- Bob Bramson of Bramson & Pressman and tell him I referred you.
So what does a copyright attorney have to do for work. I'll tell you. Right now, I drive three hours (round trip) with the kids in tow up to northern New Jersey everyweekday. All my contacts are in NYC or above the dreaded MERGE. Philadelphia is foreign to me.
Anyway, I'm reaching out to you, my readers to help me (the proprietor of Legal Job Blog) to find some work in philly or just to tell me if there are any good copyright and trademark law firms down in this area that I should look into (especially ones with job openings). Or maybe you know of an opening at your company that isn't advertised -- whatever. Paralegals and legal secrataries shouldn't be afraid either to let me know of openings as I have a posse that is looking for work to.
I like what I'm doing in north Jersey and I do a good job -- it's just too much wear and tear on my wonderful 3 1/2 year old and 17 month old. They need to be watching noggin -- not driving on the jersey turnpike.
Thanks.