How do you become a tax lawyer or a patent lawyer?
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Are there any special test or Bachelors required Buy Viagra for those two?
Whats the pay like for each?
Is either field saturated like most law fields?
1. Patent Attorney
According to the rules of professional responsibility, you can ONLY call yourself a patent attorney IF you pass a state bar and the USPTO registration exam. For most state bars you go to law school (an accredited one), and pass an exam + background requirement. For the USPTO registration exam you need to first have a SCIENCE or ENGINEERING DEGREE and pass an exam + background requirement. SEE: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ol…
Therefore, if you want to be a patent attorney you need a science or engineering degree (or equivalent as listed in the requirement).
You can still litigate patent cases without being a patent attorney, as well as do licensing agreements, but you can’t file and prosecute patent with the PTO. Also, in many patent cases patent attorneys may be preferred.
2. Tax lawyer
No special degrees are required beyond a BS or AB and a JD. A lot of tax attorneys get an LLM in tax. It is recommended that your undergraduate be in accounting, finance, or business, but it is not required. Of course you need to take a state bar exam.
3. Pay can vary depending on whether you are at a big firm, in house, or a small firm. Patent attorneys and Tax attorneys both tend to make more money than the average attorney.
4. The legal market is pretty saturated in all areas right now. check out abovethelaw.com for grumblings.
You need to attend a four-year college and get a Bachelor’s degree and then apply to law school. Once you are in law school, you can take classes to help prepare you for a specialty. I don’t know what the differences in pay might be, but the variation in pay probably depends on a lot of different factors, like whether you work in a large city or small town, for a large firm or on your own, etc. I also don’t know whether either field is saturated, but if you love what you do and are good at it, that’s what’s most important.
Try this website for an overview of job prospects in the field:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/Ocos053.htm#outlook
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