By Kate Duttera for ADAPT.legal The importance of community in the IP industry often reveals itself in the quieter moments outside of the day-to-day work. Renee Meisel, CEO of UnitedLex, described such a moment during a recent interview with ADAPT. She had been speaking with an IP attorney friend about career pathways and access. Her friend was trying to help a younger family member navigate opportunities in STEM, someone with potential but limited exposure to the kinds of careers available....

ADAPT Industry Spotlight Aparna Watal was still a teenager in India when she watched her mother take on her state university in a legal dispute. The case was complex, the institution was formidable, and one of the lawyers refused to charge any fees because the client was a teacher and he respected the profession that much. Watal, sitting and watching it all unfold, came away with a conviction she has never lost: "I just thought, wow, law is truly a superpower," she recalled. "It doesn't...

ADAPT Industry Spotlight When Mary Fuller describes her career, she reaches for an analogy rooted in her earliest professional training: she was learning to troubleshoot life the same way she troubleshot circuits. "You figure out what's broken, fix what you can, keep building," she said. It's a deceptively simple framework for a path that has taken her from a single-wide trailer in Arizona to the federal government, and from there to the deanship of one of California's most storied law...