“Creative Destruction” in Legal Jobs VIII – IP Law: Copyrights

For the first 99 percent of its history, Copyright Law could probably proclaim that it was the quietest, calmest backwater of all law practice areas.  Copyright Law was eminently predictable, including the nature of the issues that might be litigated (rarely).  For the most part, it meant filing a copyright application with the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress and imprinting a copyright notice on a publication.  What few copyright lawyers there were lived long, peaceful, stress-free, low pulse rate lives unencumbered by the high tension and uncertainty attendant on so many other practice areas.  Not anymore.

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“Creative Destruction” in Legal Jobs VII – IP Law: Trademark Practice

This “Creative Destruction” series Law Careers blog describes Trademark Law from a legal career perspective, newly energized by a variety of developments this century that have transformed the practice... and the opportunities.  The destruction of the developed world’s economies since 2008 has actually rendered trademark practice more alluring, due to the heightened awareness on the part of companies that they need to maximize their revenues from existing intellectual property assets.

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“Creative Destruction” in Legal Jobs VI – IP Law: Overview & Patents

The next several Law Careers blogs in my “Creative Destruction series explain what is happening in perhaps the most dynamic, evolving and rapidly-changing practice area of all―Intellectual Property Law.  IP Law has gone along, grown and diversified as if the economic downturn never happened.  That means a spate of attorney and law-related job and career opportunities that few other practice areas can boast.

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