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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does she have a PhD in CS? [b]That's totally unnecessary.[/b] Does she work in academia? If so, she needs to jump to private industry to make more.

Law degree is a waste of time and money. Attorneys that make 500K hate their lives. My friends in patent law were making less than me starting out in pharma sales. [/quote]

I don't understand this comment. She went to one of the best universities in the world and got a PhD in an area she's interested in.

She didn't go into academia because she said she didn't want to publish all the time. I think she should go into academia, but now she's got this patent law idea planted in her head.

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The patent attorneys who make the kind of money she wants work in biglaw. Small shops and solo practitioners are not making $500,000.

In biglaw, 80 hour work weeks are the minimum. And they are basically “publishing” all the time in the sense that you are writing constantly. So if she doesn’t like the idea of pumping out journal articles at the rate of 3-4 per year, I don't see how she will like researching and writing patent applications and motions at a rate of a dozen a WEEK. [/quote]

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