Griswold, a top patent attorney at Fish & Richardson, has dedicated his entire career to mentoring young associates, spending roughly 75% of his time on mentoring activities. He co-leads the firm’s extremely popular Patent Lab immersion training program. Formerly known as Boot Camp, the comprehensive and grueling program is mandatory for new patent associates and is run twice a year with participants flown in from the firm’s 13 international offices. 

Over the past 15-plus years, Griswold has done everything from creating the original course materials for the program to serving as a trainer, to overseeing the program planning, to recruiting principals to serve as trainers, to leading the entire program and expanding it beyond its initial roots.