Patent Attorney — Life Sciences & Chemistry (Ph.D.)

🧬 You earned the Ph.D.

⚖️ You became a lawyer.

💡 You chose patent law.

So here's a more interesting question:

HYLTON-RODIC LAW is hiring a Patent Attorney — Life Sciences & Chemistry (Ph.D.) in Washington, DC.

And we're looking for someone who wants more than the next rung on a predetermined associate ladder.

We want someone who wants to become exceptionally good at this profession.

Someone who loves difficult science.

Who wants meaningful responsibility.

Who wants rigorous feedback—and actually does something with it.

Who is ambitious enough to want more, humble enough to keep learning, disciplined enough to deliver, and adventurous enough to help build something.

Because we're building something here.

🔬 Sophisticated life sciences, biotech, pharmaceutical chemistry patent work.

🧠 Real substantive responsibility.

📈 Increasing ownership as your competence judgment grow.

🚀 A growing firm where you can help shape what comes next.

🌱 And a life outside the office that you don't have to apologize for having.

But here's something else we're doing differently.

Our standard expectation is approximately 1,700 billed hours.

Build an excellent practice there.

Do outstanding work.

Go home. Have a life.

Want to push harder in a particular year?

Associates can unlock progressively higher compensation through HRL's performance-based compensation program.

Saving for a house? 🏡

Paying down student loans?

Aggressively building wealth?

Or maybe you just enjoy running hard?

Exceptional production performance can unlock $75,000 in additional annual cash compensation.

We aren't going to put an artificial ceiling on that ambition.

And we're not going to ask you to manufacture work just to prove you're committed, either.

When the work demands intensity, we show up.

When it doesn't?

You don't need to leave your office light on so someone walking the halls at 8:00 p.m. thinks you're still working.

If you know, you know. 😉

We care about excellent work, client service, ownership, judgment results.

Not theater.

Ph.D. J.D. USPTO registration active U.S. bar membership approximately 1–2 years of substantive patent prosecution experience.

And we're deliberately looking beyond titles.

If you developed substantive prosecution experience as a patent agent, student associate, technical specialist, or attorney, we want to know what you actually did—not merely what your business card said.

This is not the place to come because you think a smaller firm means smaller expectations.

It is a place to come if you're thinking:

HYLTON-RODIC LAW is established enough to know who we are.

And ambitious enough to keep getting better.

🔥 Come help us build the next chapter.

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