<p>I’m a European patent attorney and kind of love it! But I’ve never been to law school. The only requirement here is an undergraduate degree in a scientific subject (law being an undergraduate degree in the UK anyway, so I don’t know how they could require two undergraduate degrees). Given what we pay US attorneys to file patents for our clients, I suspect I am paid significantly less that a US patent attorney, but I am still paid very well compared to the UK average. My firm is quite large so I don’t usually have to deal with anything outside my field. Occasionally I have to work on some mechanical inventions which are connected to biotech (eg surgical tools).</p>