Eager summer and new associates frequently sit across the desk and insist that they intend to work in a particular practice area that is often depicted fictionally and that sounds glamorous. When asked the canned question of "What is the best piece of advice that you can offer me?" I jump at the chance to advise, "Be open to opportunity."
At one time, I was a senior premedical major in college with organic chemistry research experience under my belt and a future as a doctor and perhaps researcher ahead of me when I chose not to pursue that path. After college, I worked in chemistry before deciding to go to law school to become a patent attorney. Thus, you might expect me to say that I built on my past experience and am now happily living my dream life as a patent attorney, but that is not how this story unfolds.
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