Intellectual Property Associate Attorney

Memphis, TN | Nashville, TN

Direct Counsel is seeking an Intellectual Property Associate Attorney with 3-6 years of experience to join a growing, full-spectrum IP practice serving clients across cutting-edge industries, including manufacturing, health care, and emerging AI-related technologies.

This is an especially compelling opportunity for an IP attorney who wants real ownership of matters and direct client contact from day one. The role spans patent prosecution, patent litigation, and strategic IP counseling, offering the opportunity to develop a truly comprehensive IP practice rather than being limited to a single area.

What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out:

• Join a growing IP practice working with clients across innovative and technology-driven industries

• Take meaningful ownership of matters and have direct client contact from the outset

• Work across patent prosecution, litigation, and counseling

• Handle patent matters before the USPTO, foreign patent offices, federal courts, and the PTAB

• Gain experience with patentability, prosecution strategy, infringement and validity, claim construction, and IP litigation

• Work on trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation

• Advise clients on freedom-to-operate, IP portfolios, clearance, opinions, and IP due diligence

• Support sophisticated M&A and licensing transactions

• Opportunity to work directly with business leaders, scientists, engineers, inventors, and other sophisticated clients

Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of intellectual property experience

• Strong patent litigation experience required

• Registered to practice before the USPTO

• Degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics, or a comparable technical field

• Experience with patent prosecution preferred

• Strong experience with federal patent litigation and/or PTAB proceedings

• Excellent legal writing and oral communication skills

• Strong work ethic, creativity, maturity, and attention to detail

• Tennessee Bar admission required, or ability to sit for the Tennessee Bar and obtain admission promptly