The real answer is three years of law school plus a couple of years of work in the relevant field. If you want a taste of what it involves, for patent law, her

The real answer is three years of law school plus a couple of years of work in the relevant field. If you want a taste of what it involves, for patent law, here is one of the seminal cases on how to construe claim terms, Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005): https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2207195741320793153&q=Phillips+v.+AWH+Corp.,+415+F.3d+1303+(Fed.+Cir.+2005)&hl=en&as_sdt=6,39 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=220719574132079...