3. Intellectual Property Law
Median annual salary: $140,926
Copyrights, copyrights, copyrights. If you have a brilliant idea in your mind, hold it for some time and protect your intellectual property. Intellectual property includes intangible creations of the human intellect and intellectual property law, one of the most in demand law fields, encompasses six primary areas: patent law, trademark law, copyright law, licensing, trade secret law and unfair competition. New developments in science, technology and elsewhere increased the demand for intellectual property lawyers because everyone wants to protect their brilliant product. The recession and various other reasons can affect some other fields of law (demand for lawyers in those fields) but when it comes to intellectual property law, people will keep inventing things and protection of the product is crucial.
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