Career Opportunities

Stake provides a hard-to-find working experience for our team members.

Cover letter, resume, and work sample, please.

A Hard-to-Find Working Experience

Working at Stake is a lifestyle choice for a legal professional. We’re different, we know it, and we want to make sure our team members know it. Here are the core values Stake brings to the marketplace:

Our Core Values

Our word matters.

We don't compromise integrity. We work hard to earn and keep each other's and our clients’ trust in our word and our work.

Real customer service.

Customer service is not dead. We make it a priority to provide recommendation-worthy customer service to every client.

Work hard together.

We don't just spot issues and make law harder. We make recommendations, drive action, and share what we know.

Fight to win.

For us, it's personal: we fight to win every matter we open. We use the law and the facts to build and work a game plan, together.

Stake provides a unique working experience for all of our team members. We’re an agile law firm at our core, which means we work differently than most other law firms you’d find. We’re a remote-first law firm, which means our employees can work anywhere so long as they can maintain confidentiality and satisfy statutory, regulatory, and professional ethics requirements.

All Employees

All Full-time Employees

All Attorney Employees

Current Opportunities

If you are an attorney, patent agent, paralegal, or marketing or administrative professional who would like to apply to join the Stake team, please send a cover letter, resume, and non-confidential writing sample to us directly at [email protected]. We are interested in talking to attorneys and agents at any experience level.

Ideal candidates want to advance our core values, are willing to work in a collaborative environment, have a willingness to learn, and desire to win. We are an equal-opportunity employer.

IP Attorneys, Paralegals, & Patent Agents

We are always looking for qualified IP attorneys and agents in prosecution, transactions, or litigation. Right now, we are specifically looking for qualified candidates seeking the following roles:

If you would like to pitch us on joining Stake in one of these roles or would like to propose a different role, please send to us directly at [email protected]:

  • a cover letter; 
  • your resume; 
  • whether you are open to a full-time, part-time, or flex role; 
  • a non-confidential, relevant work sample for which you created more than 80% of the final product; 
  • bar admission details; 
  • if a patent practitioner, your registration number; and
  • non-confidential details regarding any portable book of business.

Marketing, Operations, & Administrative Professionals

We are always looking for qualified marketing, operations, and administrative professionals. Right now, we are specifically looking for qualified candidates seeking the following roles:

If you would like to pitch us on joining Stake in one of these roles or would like to propose a different role, please send to us directly at [email protected]:

  • a cover letter; 
  • your resume;
  • whether you are open to a full-time, part-time, or flex role; and 
  • a non-confidential, relevant work sample for which you created more than 80% of the final product.

Summer Associates & Law Clerks

If you are a current law student targeting a career in patent law, and you’re interested in interning with Stake and learning the ins and outs of patent law with real, hands-on experience, please send a cover letter, resume, and law school transcript to us directly at [email protected].

About Stake

Stake was founded in 2021 by Joshua Mertzlufft to provide a top-notch client experience for innovators in space, energy, and tech and a top-notch working experience for our team members. We are a global practice with clients across North America and cases in 60+ countries. We’re a full-service IP boutique, and our work includes:

Protection

Transactions

Litigation

We’re an IP boutique, which means we don’t take every case. We’re focused on providing high-quality intellectual property legal services. We leverage technology, we innovate, and we think outside the box. We don’t constrain ourselves to “what a law firm should look like.”

Recruiters & Contractors

With the exception of law school-employed professionals, we are not presently accepting inquiries from attorney recruiters or headhunters. We are also not presently interested in substituting any of the above employee roles with an outside contractor.

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