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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s highly unlikely you will find anyone willing to pay you to go to law school.  If you have the background to be admitted to the patent bar, you can do that and become a patent agent without going to law school.  From a law firm’s perspective, it’s more cost effective to hire you as a patent agent (at a lower salary than a patent attorney), and then have you feed the technical knowledge to the attorney who’s going to do the actual legal work (and who paid for their own law degree).[/quote]

But why would firms cheapskate for top tech talent then? Wouldn't that just keep driving the so called shortage?  You can try to cheapskate and talent will just go to industry for $150-200k+.  Why would and electrical/computer engineer work for a cheap lawfirm if Google would pay $200-300k?[/quote]

My DH was a sought-after software engineer and is now a lawyer. He now makes more like $400k with his bonus and is up for partner this year. You don’t understand how quickly the salary scales up. I’m a lawyer too but no tech background. I have literally never heard of a law firm paying for someone to go to law school. [/quote]Law firms do pay for folks with the right background and credentials. See:

[url]https://www.finnegan.com/en/careers/roles/technical-specialists.html[/url][/quote]

I don’t see where it says they will pay the tuition?[/quote]

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