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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a patent attorney here in DC.  PHD in CS would get you hired at many IP firms. Our starting salary is around 200K.  If she worked hard, she would get into the  $300K as an associate for sure, which allows loans to get paid off pretty quickly.  Most of our young associates with loans pay off upwards of 100K a year to get rid of them quickly.  During the summer you can work at a firm and we pay $4000 per week this year for 10 weeks.  So you can make over 40K for the summer and that helps with that last year to keep the debt down.  Also many firms will let you work part time your third year so you can easily make more.

To make $500k you need to do well as a partner, but assuming she does well in law school she can make enough in years 1-5 to pay off the loans and then either stay at a firm or go in house or to the government.  Not crazy if it is something she thinks she would be good at and enjoy[/quote]

Sounds like prosecution (writing patents). 300k is basically a 3 year associate guaranteed salary in big law which requires litigation realistically. [/quote]

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