Dangers of Non-Anonymous Blawging

Anonymous Lawyer on the potential dangers of blogging if you want to work at big law:

Uh oh. One of the recruiting coordinators knocked on my door this morning. Apparently she had lunch over the weekend with one of her colleagues, and heard a story about an associate at another firm who had "some sort of online journal -- something apparently called a weblog," and was writing stuff about the firm, and her colleagues, and when they discovered this it became a big deal, because of what was up there, and they ended up reprimanding the associate and having her make the blog vanish immediately. So having heard this story, first thing this morning the recruiter starting googling all of our summer hires to see if anything would turn up....

Even if Anonymous Lawyer isn't for real; the discussion about whether recruiters are 1) savvy enough to google candidates and 2) will hold it against potential candidates is real.

see also: Elizabeth Rader: Your Permanent Record | Nick Morgan on Responsible Blawging | Andrew Raff: Stand By Your Words | Scheherazade: I Knew It All Along (make sure to read all the comments too)