Firstly I was down with a cold and then back at work, so you have no doubt already had the new year air of hopeful expectation beaten out of you by the grey actuality of ‘07. But happy new year, nonetheless.
I am putting the year on formal warning that if it doesn’t bring me a gift-wrapped training contract pretty damn pronto, I shall exercise the break clause in my contract and open negotations with 2008 to take over duties early. Given that everybody is in a post Carter fret, jobs seem thin on the ground at the moment.
Some excitement is promised though, as Geeklawyer is organising a UK Legal Blogging Conference. As far as I can tell, UK law blogs have had a bit of a blossoming in 2006, from a slow start, so this seems like a good time. Now, I just need to have a think about the anonymity thing, particularly as drinks are likely.
I’ve been thinking about this anonymity issue. Since I lurk in the shadows and do not wish to lift the veil of my obscurity either, would attendance at this conference whatsamashizzle compromise my anonymity?
1. Not if I don’t tell anyone my name
2. Not if I don’t tell anyone where I work
3. Not if I don’t let anyone take photos of me.
It seems that sticking to these rules is more reasonable than wearing the mask of Zorro to a conference in the Slaughterhouse.
That’s more or less the conclusion I’d come to. It seems pretty unlikely that any attendee would actually know me, so the risk of unmasking that way is low.
Now, will Geeklawyer be taking cash?
Should have said… if you\’re looking for jobs, admit that all this time, all along, all you\’ve really wanted to do is to be a corporate lawyer. Here are some good reasons in case you need them:
1. Corporate lawyers have more fun
2. Corporate lawyers are the pulsating bleeding heart of a law firm
3. Corporate lawyers sometimes get bigger bonusses
4. Corporate lawyers will always have the job market beying for them
5. Corporate lawyers can specialise into different Corporate law aspects
6. Corporate lawyers may end up in-house on a cushty ticket
7. Corporate lawyers are allowed to swear in the office
8. Corporate lawyers have high-blood pressure
9. Corporate lawyers can wearing expensive cuff-links without annoying their clients
10. Corporate lawyers always have shiny shoes.
Ok, some of those may be a bit tenuous., but you get my point.
Leaving all that aside, if you get a training contract, you face the prospect of one day having to change the name of your blog. Have you thought about that? Will you for instance, go from ‘nearly’, to ‘almost’, to ‘now I’m actually’ legal?
BTW I am unlikley to make it to the conference as I am in Norwich and it is a long way to go and an expensive train fare just to talk about blogging.
Thanks both.
Corporate - my shoes are already shiny and my in-office swearing quotient quite high. I could do with the money (and the occasional intellectual challenge), but I am an old leftie litigation junkie.
Tessa - I hadn’t thought of that as a compensation. But, dammit, it isn’t enough. I’ll check out the domain availability of ‘virtually legal’ and ‘absolutely legal’ straight away. Sorry you won’t be going to the conference, but then (looks around furtively) of course I won’t be either.