Frustrated when she couldn’t get the job she wanted with an established firm, Navy veteran Maresa Martin Talbert formed her own law firm.
“When I was coming out of law school, which was in 2017, I knew I wanted to practice intellectual property law and most of the jobs that I had been applying to, they wanted someone with the senior range with five to 10 years of experience or they wanted hard science people with patent law experience,” Talbert said. “I wasn’t finding the jobs in law that I wanted in my experience level. It was a really trying time of not getting any traction in applying for jobs, which was the first time I ever experienced that.”