could blogging get you hired
Posted August 16, 2006 02:10 PM
Maybe. Maybe if the firm gets blogging like Dunlap, Codding and Rogers or Farella Braun + Martel. Maybe if several soon to be co-workers read your blog on a regular basis and are impressed with your writing.
Or maybe it could get you dooced.
Maybe if as a result of reading blogs you learn about and stay abreast of important topics such as data privacy, data security, regulations applicable to on-line commerce, DMCA, tax, Sarbanes-Oxley, Digital Rights Management, state and federal consumer protection statutes, licensing of third-party applications in a hosted environment and US export controls; topics that are apparently important to some companies - Sun, for example.
Maybe you get lucky and someone takes a flyer on you, even though you have been practicing in some unrelated field for the past several years, and you go on to become a pre-eminent copyright scholar.
Yeah. So maybe you should get started blogging today ... or at least reading about topics in fields that you find interesting ... or not. You decide.
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