How Did You Get Your Start?

It starts with my grandfather – an engineer who became a lawyer in his 30s. Everyone in my family (34 cousins included) looked up to him. My aunt and uncle followed his path, and two of my cousins are in patent law like me.

At UVA, I studied electrical engineering, in part, because I always thought I’d pursue the path my grandfather took.

As a rising fourth year, I was a bit studied out preparing for the LSAT, and against my grandfather and mothers complaints, I didn’t apply to law school right out of college.

My whole fall semester that year I went to every career event I could find looking for a consulting job in D.C. I ended up at a software development consulting company, and did that for a few years.

After a while, I felt like I needed to challenge myself more. Don't get me wrong, there were much harder software jobs then what I had, but it occurred to me that I wanted something different.

So I took the LSAT, went to NYU Law, and have been a patent litigator ever since.