How to Apply

If you are a candidate considering applying for a technology specialist position, please send a resume, cover letter, undergraduate and any graduate school transcripts to the appropriate contact within our Legal Personnel and Recruiting Department.

Office Interviews

If you are invited to the firm, interviews will consist of a half-day visit, either morning or afternoon. Typically, you will be scheduled to meet with four attorneys and one technology specialist for approximately 30 minutes each. If you have particular interests or concerns that might be best addressed by lawyers who share those interests—for example, parents, women lawyers, lawyers of color, openly gay lawyers, or newly arrived lawyers or technology specialists—please let us know. We will make every effort to accommodate your request.

Travel Reimbursement

Out-of-town candidates: The firm will reimburse the interview expenses of out-of-town candidates who are invited in for a full round of interviews. Reimbursable expenses include reasonable air and train fare, ground transportation, hotel accommodations and reasonable cost of meals. For automobile travel, we will reimburse your mileage, tolls and parking fees. For more specific information, please contact our Legal Personnel and Recruiting Department. We do not reimburse candidates for “prescreening” interviews.

Travel reimbursement form: Either prior to or during your visit to our office, you will receive an interview packet that contains a travel reimbursement form on which you should list your out-of-pocket expenses. Please provide all receipts when submitting your request for reimbursement.

Offer Decisions

We make every effort to respond to each candidate as quickly as possible.

Direct Applicants

If you are a candidate applying for a technology specialist position, please send a resume, cover letter and undergraduate and graduate transcripts to the appropriate Legal Personnel Department contact for the city in which you have an interest.

Search Firms

We require that all search firms request and return to the appropriate office's Legal Personnel and Recruiting Department contact an executed fee agreement prior to any resume submittal. Resumes received from search firms without signed agreements will not be recognized as valid submissions. In addition, we honor the first resume properly submitted to the Legal Personnel and Recruiting Department for a period of twelve months from the date of submission.

In addition to the candidate resume—with the search firm’s corporate stamp or corporate identifier on it, search firms should submit a cover letter detailing the office and position for which the candidate is applying and stating whether the candidate is admitted to the patent bar and provide a copy of the candidate’s undergraduate and graduate transcripts. Search firms should submit only candidates for technology specialist positions who:

• Are not former employees in any capacity of the firm or its legacy firms;
• Have not submitted an application to the firm either directly or through another referral source and have not discussed employment with anyone at the firm during the preceding twelve months; and,
• Have given the search firm express consent to be referred by the search firm to us.