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Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Conflicts Department as a Conflicts Specialist.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Reviewing new client, new matter and change requests submitted into the firm’s new business intake system to check for accuracy and completeness.
• Working with the submitters to make corrections and to obtain any necessary additional information.
• Using the conflicts database to prepare and perform high quality conflict searches and produce accurate conflict-of-interest reports for new business, lateral intake and/or marketing purposes.
• Routinely monitoring discussions on new matter submissions and facilitating resolution of potential conflict issues.
• Assisting with the ongoing maintenance and data integrity of the conflicts information in the firm’s databases.

What Will You Bring to the Table? 

• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• A high level of attention to detail and organization.
• 2+ years’ experience in legal conflicts of interest, new business intake and/or risk or records management.
• 3-5 years’ previous law firm experience in an administrative role or the equivalent in similar experience

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Information Technology Department as an IT Specialist 3.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Resolve workstation issues throughout the organization to maximize firm-wide productivity and minimize system downtime
• Handle tickets escalated from the other IT Specialists and the Help Desk
• Act as a lead resource to the other IT groups by assisting with workstation, application, network, server, and telecomm support, administration, and testing

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• 5 years experience in Windows workstation implementation, management, and support preferably in the professional services industry
• Current certifications in relevant technologies such as Microsoft Windows 10 MCSA, CompTIA Network+ and A+
• Ability to provide technical guidance and explain advanced concepts to others in the work area via strong written and oral communications

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Austin team in our fast-paced Information Technology Department as an IT Specialist I.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Facilitate and own all workstation deployment and user support requests for the firm.
• Troubleshoot a wide range of software and hardware issues, providing on-site support as well as back-up support to all other offices.
• Manage and assist with implementation, integration, and training for any new or existing application or system rollouts.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Strong knowledge of information technology at a level normally acquired through completion of a bachelor’s degree in business or information technology, or a closely related field, technical training, or equivalent experience. Microsoft certification/training strongly desired.
• Approximately 2-3 years of experience providing desktop support, preferably in a large professional-services environment.
• Windows 10, A+, and Network+ certifications.

Why Fish?
When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives. Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Information Technology Department as a Network Engineer.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Act as a resource for resolving problems and provide technical insight escalated from within IT and other departments.
• Configure and support servers, storage, and infrastructure for an extensive Microsoft, NetApp and Cisco environment.
• Deploy and implement new servers and technologies for multi-server applications such as MS SQL, Exchange, Citrix and other custom applications.
• Actively own projects and incidents while providing meaningful documentation of processes and procedures for solutions.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• 3-5 years of experience using Microsoft Server systems in a VMWare environment along with a current MCSE certification.
• Interpersonal skills necessary in order to maintain effective relationships with venders and co-workers, in both a technical and non-technical manor.
• A self-driven personality with the ability to work in a dynamic team-oriented environment.

Why Fish?
When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives. Join Fish’s Dallas team in our fast-paced Litigation Practice Systems Department as a Litigation Support Coordinator.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Encourage and support the use of litigation specific technologies, with the ultimate goal of promoting a highly efficient and effective electronic discovery process.
• Partner with litigation case teams to outline, determine, and implement case data management and electronic discovery strategies during the pre-discovery phase.
• Assist with the evaluation, development, and implementation of litigation specific technologies as well as the related procedures and training programs for implementation and maintenance.
• Assist litigation teams with planning and budgeting as it relates to discovery services.
• Ensure client events requiring multiple integrated resources, such as off-site trials, receive appropriate and coordinated support.
• Create and provide thorough project documentation, reporting, and metrics.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Thorough knowledge of litigation support as normally acquired through a bachelor’s degree, or specialized equivalent experience. Project management certification a plus.
• 7+ years litigation support experience, including hands-on data analyst work.
• Advanced working knowledge of electronic discovery and evidence management software, including Nuix, Relativity, Livenote, Concordance, and IPRO.
• Demonstrable ability to generate reports and formulate database content structures within electronic discovery and evidence management software programs.
• Knowledge of forensic document collection, SQL databases and queries, and document hold processes.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Litigation Practice Systems Department as a Litigation Support Coordinator.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Encourage and support the use of litigation specific technologies, with the ultimate goal of promoting a highly efficient and effective electronic discovery process.
• Partner with litigation case teams to outline, determine, and implement case data management and electronic discovery strategies during the pre-discovery phase.
• Assist with the evaluation, development, and implementation of litigation specific technologies as well as the related procedures and training programs for implementation and maintenance.
• Assist litigation teams with planning and budgeting as it relates to discovery services.
• Ensure client events requiring multiple integrated resources, such as off-site trials, receive appropriate and coordinated support.
• Create and provide thorough project documentation, reporting, and metrics.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Thorough knowledge of litigation support as normally acquired through a bachelor’s degree, or specialized equivalent experience. Project management certification a plus.
• 7+ years litigation support experience, including hands-on data analyst work.
• Advanced working knowledge of electronic discovery and evidence management software, including Nuix, Relativity, Livenote, Concordance, and IPRO.
• Demonstrable ability to generate reports and formulate database content structures within electronic discovery and evidence management software programs.
• Knowledge of forensic document collection, SQL databases and queries, and document hold processes.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives. Join Fish’s Washington, DC team in our fast-paced Marketing Department as a Marketing Assistant.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Help marketing management identify, generate, and manage target lists of current and prospective clients across industries and geographic areas
• Manage the web and social media presence of the patent, trademark and copyright, and regulatory practice groups
• Coordinate and compile responses to national legal-service provider surveys
• Provide support for local and national events, including handling day-of logistics and executing effective event follow-up

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Bachelor’s level education in business, marketing, or communications, or equivalent experience
• Previous work or internship experience in a related field, ideally professional services marketing
• Positive, entrepreneurial, problem-solving attitude

 Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives. Join Fish’s Boston team in our fast-paced Marketing Department as a Marketing Assistant.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Help marketing management identify, generate, and manage target lists of current and prospective clients across industries and geographic areas
• Manage the web and social media presence of the patent, trademark and copyright, and regulatory practice groups
• Coordinate and compile responses to national legal-service provider surveys
• Provide support for local and national events, including handling day-of logistics and executing effective event follow-up

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Bachelor’s level education in business, marketing, or communications, or equivalent experience
• Previous work or internship experience in a related field, ideally professional services marketing
• Positive, entrepreneurial, problem-solving attitude

 Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Silicon Valley team in our fast-paced Operations Department as an Office Services Assistant.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Complete assigned copy, scanning, printing and binding projects.
• Respond promptly to all requests from Transfers and New Matters. Locate, log and ship files, or renumber as directed
• Provide coverage for the Receptionist’s breaks, days off, etc. as needed
• Collect and coordinate materials for shredding, ordering service if necessary, and obtain and log Certificates of Destruction

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• 1-3 years’ experience working in a professional office setting
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints
• Ability to work well within a team-oriented environment and contribute to effective team relationships
• Ability to work with significant attention to detail

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Boston team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as a Patent Paralegal.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Maintaining and managing a patent prosecution docket
• Preparing and filing documents related to post-grant and patent prosecution
• Recording billable and non-billable time spent and working toward a billable goal of 1300 hours annually

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• Paralegal/legal administrative degree/certificate or equivalent experience
• Foreign patent prosecution experience
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)
• Varying degrees of experience.  We are seeking both entry-level paralegals who will do task-based work, e.g. Information Disclosure Statements, and more experienced paralegals who will do full-spectrum US and foreign patent prosecution work.  Candidates fluent in Chinese are strongly encouraged to apply, but this is not a requirement for all of our open positions.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Dallas team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as a Patent Paralegal.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Maintaining and managing a patent prosecution docket
• Preparing and filing documents related to post-grant and patent prosecution
• Recording billable and non-billable time spent and working toward a billable goal of 1300 hours annually

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• Paralegal/legal administrative degree/certificate or equivalent experience
• Foreign patent prosecution experience
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)
• Varying degrees of experience.  We are seeking both entry-level paralegals who will do task-based work, e.g. Information Disclosure Statements, and more experienced paralegals who will do full-spectrum US and foreign patent prosecution work.  Candidates fluent in Chinese are strongly encouraged to apply, but this is not a requirement for all of our open positions.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s San Diego team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as an Docketing Specialist.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Docket USPTO and foreign patent and/or trademark mail in the docketing system.
• Generate and monitor daily docket of deadlines to ensure that deadlines are met and the system is properly updated.
• Review incoming and outgoing emails/faxes/mail and update docketing systems as necessary.
• Review/double-check selected patent documents before electronically filing them with the USPTO.
• Provide assistance with overflow docketing and/or coverage for other F&R offices.
• Respond to various requests from Legal staff and other departments.

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• Advanced knowledge of docketing and patent/trademark processes as normally acquired through training, education, and several years of work experience in the IP field.
• Ability to change and adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances.
• Ability to work well within a team-oriented environment and contribute to effective team relationships.
• Professional conduct, service oriented attitude and acute attention to detail.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Silicon Valley team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as a Patent Assistant.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Preparing confidential correspondence
• Arranging meetings and appointments
• Reviewing, editing and processing bills and invoices

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives. Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as an APS Indexer/Scanner.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Read large volume of incoming daily mail, code and scan into our APS System.
• Provide assistance with overflow and/or coverage work from others including other F&R offices.
• Assist with various projects as assigned.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Skilled in attention to detail.
• Ability to change and adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances.
• Ability to work well within a team-oriented environment and contribute to effective team relationships.
• Professional conduct, service oriented attitude and acute attention to detail.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s Munich team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as a Patent Paralegal.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Maintaining and managing a patent prosecution docket
• Preparing, filing and proofreading documents related to foreign and domestic patent prosecution
• Recording billable and non-billable time spent on tasks

What Will You Bring to the Table? 

• Qualified to work as a Paralegal in Germany
• Some patent prosecution experience
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as an Docketing Specialist.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Docket USPTO and foreign patent and/or trademark mail in the docketing system.
• Generate and monitor daily docket of deadlines to ensure that deadlines are met and the system is properly updated.
• Review incoming and outgoing emails/faxes/mail and update docketing systems as necessary.
• Review/double-check selected patent documents before electronically filing them with the USPTO.
• Provide assistance with overflow docketing and/or coverage for other F&R offices.
• Respond to various requests from Legal staff and other departments.

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• Advanced knowledge of docketing and patent/trademark processes as normally acquired through training, education, and several years of work experience in the IP field.
• Ability to change and adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances.
• Ability to work well within a team-oriented environment and contribute to effective team relationships.
• Professional conduct, service oriented attitude and acute attention to detail.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives

Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought-after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Established in 1878, and now with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China, our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences and perspectives.  Join Fish’s downtown Minneapolis team in our fast-paced Practice Systems Department as a Patent Paralegal.

How Will You Make a Difference?

• Maintaining and managing a patent prosecution docket
• Preparing and filing documents related to post-grant and patent prosecution
• Recording billable and non-billable time spent and working toward a billable goal of 1300 hours annually

What Will You Bring to the Table?  

• Paralegal/legal administrative degree/certificate or equivalent experience
• Foreign patent prosecution experience
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written)
• Varying degrees of experience.  We are seeking both entry-level paralegals who will do task-based work, e.g. Information Disclosure Statements, and more experienced paralegals who will do full-spectrum US and foreign patent prosecution work.  Candidates fluent in Chinese are strongly encouraged to apply, but this is not a requirement for all of our open positions.

Why Fish?

When you join our team, we offer:

• Competitive pay with a rich benefits package, including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• A family-friendly atmosphere with back-up child care, as well as health and wellness initiatives