[Jugurtha]

Not necessarily patent law, but litigation in general. It would be a completely different matter when there's a legal dispute on in tech, say on a project where a deliverable is a software product, if the lawyer had a programming background.

The conversation would be so different, whether interacting with both parties, the potential experts, the judge. It would be just an incredibly valuable asset.

Not just in litigation, but drafting contracts having a programming background and knowing how projects go, how estimates work, and the common problems would also be helped if the lawyer drafting them has a programming background.

[maxgeist]

> It would be just an incredibly valuable asset.

Do you have any examples of this? I haven't been able to find a ton of examples of lawyer/programmers whose careers combine these areas of expertise explicitly.

[Jugurtha]

A specific example would be that we were went to litigation and I would have loved if our lawyer had a technical background when I tried really hard to draw his attention to subtleties that would make it a fucking slam dunk.

For memo, we lost, and I would not rely on that herbivore lawyer again; not even to deliver food.

[ssss11]

Big firms have a TMT practice - Technology, Media and Telecoms… there would be a subset of matters like they mentioned where tech knowledge (I assume) would be valuable