Overview of career paths of IP alumni: the Pierce Law advantage
FAQ answer: most recent data shows Pierce Law IP graduates hired by law firms at average salary of nealry $150,000
Overview
November 2009 : The Financial Times names Pierce Law now the US's foremost institute for the study of intellectual property law.
While many students considering attending law school to study IP have the burning desire to know, “What can you tell me about what I might be able to earn as a new IP graduate from Pierce Law?”, that question grossly oversimplifies the range of career opportunities that our global alumni have available. The information in these pages attempts to balance the statistics of a recent Pierce Law IP graduate at an IP firm with information regarding the reality that our IP alumni end up working in may settings:
- Law firms
- Corporate legal departments
- Corporate management
- Government agencies
- Non-governmental organizations
- Companies providing financial products and services related to intellectual property expert testimony, valuation, investments, risk management and transactions
- Companies that provide patent search technology, portfolio management software, online patent analytics and an international patent databases
- Consultancies
- Academia
- Legal publishing
- Start up businesses
Employers who have recently hired a Pierce Law graduate: salary information by National Association of Law Placement (NALP) 2008-2009.
The following is the most recent data compiled by the Pierce Law Career Services Office in conjunction with the NALP data. This is only one very small picture of the career and financial success of Pierce Law IP alumni. Pierce Law alumni are represented in the top IP law firms and corporations producing IP. In order to understand the full added value of thirty five years of Pierce Law alumni, all of the web pages in the IP alumni section of the Pierce Law Web need to be viewed.

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