Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Jobs and Careers
Reply to "Explain to me like I’m five. What do “Big Law” lawyers do? "
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]It really depends on the practice area. For instance, my good friend pretty much exclusively does patent prosecution. She has a masters in engineering as well as a law degree and what she does at a big firm is works with inventors to file patent applications, including searching existing patents and distinguishing her clients' work from those. She then works with the patent examiner to overcome any objections they've raised. It's a highly specialized and technical area of the law. Litigation (going to court and conducting trials) is only one type of law. Lots of lawyers never go to court. The personal injury billboards you see? That's really not typically what you think of when you think BigLaw. Personal injury law is its own thing.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
