Groan – OMG! - College guidance counselors are as bad as real estate brokers when it comes to overselling the law school product. Gimme strength God – send Roosh a check for my past post and for the one I am going to put in now –
Read this thread – particularly my posts -
http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-2000.html
Starting from the last post back – Regarding patent law – this falls under the intellectual property umbrella – Patents apply to mechanical/chemical/ products in commerce and sometimes chemical or industrial processes. The patent system has become another scam. To register a patent you have to disclose the workings/ingredients of what it is you seek to patent. “Patent trolls” scour the government filings looking at newly patented products and then ‘shop’ the product to a competitor who then turns the patent material over to a patent lawyer with the order to find a way to make a product as close in design and working to the patented one without running afoul of the patent. A simplified example would be that scene from the movie ‘Coming to America’ where the girl’s father says “McDonald’s got the Big Mac – we’ll - we’ve got the Big Mick.” In other words legally when does a new product/process differ enough from a patented process to be deemed a different product from the patented one. To do this requires an engineering/chemical degree and probably some experience as an engineer. I had one case with a huge patent law firm in the country (on a non-patent case) – I won’t name them because they have bots that scour the net for any mention of them - of the 4 attorneys assigned to fight little old me – two of them were army corps of engineer guys with 4 and 6 year degrees in mechanical engineering. A third kid went to school in Japan and was published in the ‘Journal of Robotics’ for writing an article to the effect of ‘fractilizing the hexapod.’ All 4 of them were complete assholes – they were the worst lawyers I’ve ever seen and the federal judge assigned to the case threw them out of her courtroom in lower Manhattan. I had friggen’ criminal terrorist trials in the next room over with 50 guys with machine guns on the floor and here were these pricks sent packing – heh.
The patent system is all adjudicated in patent courts and they have their own patent bar application. This is why pharmacists goto law school – because they can work on drug patents – get the idea? The flip side is a patent lawyer admitted to the patent court with a toxicology background gets billed out at $650 an hour.
Other intellectual property issues – copyright/trademark/fair use/counterfeiting – 85% of this is done at the federal level. I’ve had some good cases – Russian mobster counterfeiting computers – unauthorized use of an artists’ name to sell publications - these were the best cases I ever worked on because I got to go all over the country – Hell I went to Vegas cause a witness lived outside the city. I worked 10 hours asking questions about comic book art and I was on the strip getting wasted by 9:00 pm. In Federal Court you can depose and compel someone to be deposed anywhere in the 50 states – I was in Detroit two times Cleveland, Philly, etc. This is good work if you can get it. Because intellectual property is big money – landing a client with the money to prosecute or defend these cases is highly competitive. Landing an IP job in a biglaw firm after graduation would be a tough proposition. Also – New York City, Austin Texas, and Los Angeles are the centers for this work. Also – there is a Jewish ‘mafia’ in that trade in this country (as with so many trades) – busting your way in to that ‘club’ is near impossible. If you and a tribal associate are hired in the same year – it does not matter what you do for the firm – don’t be surprised if Lisa Rosenberg Scwartzstein gets a partnership and you don’t.
On that note – a word about partnerships –
Generally speaking – you have 6 to 8 years to make partner. You don’t become partner first unless you bring in books of business – you become a ‘contract partner’ or a junior partner which means you are contractually entitled to a share of the firm’s profits but you are still an at-will employee meaning you can be terminated without cause. Also – sometimes if you get an ‘offer’ to be a partner – you have to buy shares in the company which cost $$$$$$. Not to many people have that type of cash which means you have to get a loan, etc. There is no firm which could pay a partner a 1 million salary without that partner ‘buying in’ – or bringing a huge client in. A buy in can take many forms however – they could open a satellite office in another city and send you to run it – and you could bring the business in that way, etc.
KimLeeBJ’s stats on employment are dead on. I have no fucking clue why so many people are still going to Law School – there are no jobs – there is not enough litigation to support the number of lawyers now. Another partner in a nice firm on Long Island said ‘Law as a business is dying’ – there are a lot of rules now about settling cases where Medicare has a lien – you cannot believe what is going on – you could cut 1/3 of lawyers in New York today and you would still have a surplus. Now of course – if your parents are paying your tuition or you have an ‘in’ with a good company that is another story – but going out on your own – do you really want to helping people with speeding tickets for 100$ a pop?
There are successful business models I see now for lawyers – What Hydro was talking about – getting ‘pushed out’ as time to award a partnership approaches – is now happening to me. I am going to post here about firm politics for Roosh disciple opinion – I am making some money on the side from Irish contractors and cases on the side – I hope I can last long enough in my current job to make it to the point I can get enough of a client base – I am following other models - i.e. totally mobil with e-mail and fax to your blackberry - laptop usage and no fixed office space.
And I got news for you – you think you are going to roll into Kiss & Fly and pussy is going to drop from the chandeliers cause you’re a law student – read my other post. Lawyers suck. The paralegal (who was 45) at my first job said I was the only lawyer she ever met in her life that knew how to have a good time. It confers no status in the nightlife realm except to a good girl that wants a provider – go out tomorrow night and tell everyone you are a law student – yeah – that works. <choke>
Also, until you have worked an 80 hour week in an office – you have no idea how taxing that is on every part of your body and psche – its one thing to do it in a farming capacity because farming is a lifestyle – or on a project such as putting a house up – working like crazy for 6 weeks and then being off for a month - but to commute in 6 days a week and drop 12 to 15 hour days in an office at a computer terminal or reading boring discovery material is another story. I've done that for several weeks at a time and I can tell you that even if the elusive 10 were to throw her face in your lap on a Friday night to give you a snarlen' - after a week like that you might not raise to the occassion.
Realize that the majority of your co-workers (this may be true across many industries now) do not have lives, are not interested in healthy lives – don’t care if their 13 year old daughters are using cocaine and fucking the landscaping crew back in Great Neck – your superiors will expect you to have the same outlook on life – if you took your vacation to the south of france and nailed some bikini model and showed pictures to your boss you’d get demerits – they cant stand anyone getting over on them – I could publish a fucking book on whats happened to me in the past year. I am going to post a series of office political actions directed at me for Roosh readership commented over Christmas weekend -
Males in corporate America are really like jealous bitches – bringing my wife all tarted up to the firm’s Christmas party shows it up. People where I live are toxic in general - in a NYC law firm - forget it. You might as well smoke pure tar.