A Broad Perspective: Patent Law Suits Gordon Well [Women to Watch]

While working in network security for the telecommunications industry, Lori Gordon says she felt like she was in a "good versus evil" situation. "We would try to figure out how hackers would break the network next, so we could fix it before they did," she says. A few years later, Gordon parlayed that experience with technology and an attitude to defend into a successful career as a patent attorney, a transition she calls "the best career decision I could have ever made."