Associate Partner Tracked Emerging Tech Patent Portfolio Development

This Silicon Valley law firm has earned a national and international reputation for having one of the most prestigious and cutting-edge IP practices.  The group has earned this reputation because of its ability to attract and service progressive companies with cutting-edge technologies and challenging patent issues.  The firm attracts top-flight attorneys and professional staff to their team because of cutting edge and technically challenging work that they service.  Also, the IP leadership provides an entrepreneurial environment, excellent mentoring, and superior technology along with an innovative process that gives their professional staff and Associates all the tools to be competitive and win in the marketplace.  The firm is not on a lockstep system and Associates and professional staff can advance at their pace. 

The leadership is looking for an Associate with Partnership aspirations, as this is a Partner tracked role.  This position is sponsored by the National IP Chair and another IP Partner who sits on the firm’s Executive Committee.  This Associate will work on complex patent matters in the firm’s emerging technologies practice group and be a key person servicing a major Fortune 100 client company.  The Associate will interact extensively with clients, providing strategic counseling in relationship to patent portfolio development. This Associate should have 1 to 3 years of big law/patent boutique experience and hold an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related engineering/work related experience.  The firm offers above market compensation, excellent benefits, superior bonuses including an extra bonus for new business development.  This person will be required to sit for the USPTO if they have not yet been admitted. The position is in Silicon Valley and the firm will pay for relocation.