+1 > Each party will have patent lawyers (often more than one) and trial lawyers (often more than one) on their team. Those will all have secretaries and paral

+1 > Each party will have patent lawyers (often more than one) and trial lawyers (often more than one) on their team. Those will all have secretaries and paralegals. Often way more than one. It's not unusual for a patent trial team to have five or six lawyers, divided into teams that handle different aspects of the case, plus a couple of paralegals, and possibly an admin / secretary. (A patent infringement trial is often bet-the-product-line or even bet-the-company, so you often spend 16 to 20 hours a day either in court or in the "war room" in your side's headquarters hotel, getting ready for the next day in court. And as I can testify from personal experience, it's not hard to put on a few pounds snacking on the food with which the paralegals oh-so-helpfully stock the war room.)