Brian Epstein is a patent attorney with Modal Law who has been working with Japanese clients and patent attorneys for his 14-year career. He started his own practice in 2019 and plans to visit Japan again shortly after the borders reopen.
- Japanese in law school
- Conversation sessions with classmates
- Conversations with trainees from Japan – Japanese for Busy People
- International law
- First time to Japan and initial interest in the country
- Advice for law school for anyone interested in working with Japan
- Common law vs. civil law
- “Race, Racism, and American Law” by Derrick Bell
- Taxation
- “De novo” in patent review at PTAB
- Paul Butler at Georgetown Law
- Patent work
- “If you can do patent law, you do do patent law”
- Working with Japanese clients at a law firm
- Starting a law firm
- Marketing work during the pandemic
- Modal Law YouTube channel
- Ex parte prosecution
- Japanese emails
- “To email in Japanese, take a layer cake of etiquette and stuff it with meaning”
- Japanese cultural consultants
- Go-to Japanese karaoke song
- “Shiki no uta,” Nujabes
- “Plastic Love,” Mariya Takeuchi
- Modal Law