Unhappy engineers create patent lawyer?

From a post on patent attorney Rudy Telscher who has become one of the highest profile attorneys in St. Louis:


So he was one of those farsighted guys who realized that a technical background would help in law? No, he intended to be an engineer, but while he was in college, he worked at McDonnell Douglas and met some engineers who were unhappy. Then he met a lawyer who told him a background in engineering would help with patent law.