The following reflects my own personal opinions, not those of my past, current, or future employers. If you came to this post hoping to find an anti-Google screed, you’ll be quite disappointed. In this post, I’ll provide an honest recap of what I loved about my time at Google and also why I chose to […]
One of the main reasons I chose Santa Clara Law was so that I could take Prof. Goldman’s Internet law class. Of course, what better way to become an Internet law expert than to be taught by *the* expert himself? Taking Internet Law my 2L year was bittersweet. For the first time in my academic […]
Internet Law | Fall 2019 (Goldman) When you have the opportunity to take a law school class with the world’s leading expert in the field/thought-leader, you take it. For obvious reasons, this was hands-down my favorite and the most valuable course I’ve taken in law school. Not only will you cover all of the important […]
This semester, the SCU Internet Law Student Organization (ILSO) is shifting our focus to professional development. You came here to get a job – we’re here to help. Here’s how: New Slack Workspace (Professional Development Goal: Networking) All ILSO student members should have received a link last week to join our new Slack workspace. To […]
“I just want to sue people,” said the prospective law student sitting behind me at the annual LSAC conference. It’s an all too familiar phrase and one that perhaps all of us law students, current and prospective, are guilty of uttering at one time or another. It’s not surprising. Here in the U.S., legal pop […]
If you’re at all familiar with Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show “Newsroom,” you’ve probably seen the famous monologue delivered by main character, Will McAvoy, a brilliant yet cold, brooding, ratings-obsessed nightly news anchor for the fictional Atlantic Cable News (ACN) Network. “It’s not the greatest country in the world,” McAvoy sharply retorts to a naive college […]
The Internet Law Student Organization (ILSO) started a newsletter this semester for student members to write about anything technology and Internet law/policy. The following is the full version of a discussion with my colleague, Saad Malik, a 1L and student member of ILSO, about content moderation and the state of the Internet. My discussion is […]
I hope this post is helpful in a few ways: 1. in providing insight into what an in-house legal internship at a large tech company looks like; 2. in shedding some light on some alternative career paths that aren’t often higlighted in law school; and 3. in giving an update as to what I’m […]
During my 1L year, I received a piece of advice from a partner at one of the many firms around here: “Take notice of the things you enjoy during law school. It will be rare, but it could lead you to your career.” I couldn’t help but think back to that piece of advice as […]
Surprise surprise, I’m taking Internet law this semester — the only reason I wanted to go to law school in the first place. In an effort to help students “fall back in love with writing” the course requires us to write several non-legal-memo style papers about topics in Internet law (go figure). Because I […]
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