Lawyers who didn’t start out in privacy/security and moved to it, what kind of law did you come from?

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I went in-house straight out of law school. I was a generalist and picked up privacy after our privacy lawyer left. So I didn’t move jobs but picked up privacy after about a year.

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Tech trans

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M&A

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How do you like privacy compared to M&A?

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General practitioner. Mostly general civil litigation with some family, probate, business (transactions and general guidance)… hated it all

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I am a CA licensed attorney with CIPP/E but no one wants to take a shot even for an entry level privacy specialist positions. I am really frustrated of hearing people saying just stick with litigation.

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OP. I came from biglaw general commercial lit.

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IP / tech transactions

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International arbitration / litigation

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Employment counseling and litigation

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The cert should help. There’s a big focus on employee privacy right now (CCPA, employee monitoring, use of AI in making hiring, firing, promotion related decisions, etc). Try your best to minimize the labor work (not relevant to privacy), maximize the employing advice and counseling work (which is more applicable), and do your best to get work in the employee privacy areas. When I was doing employment law I really focused on getting employee privacy related work and this helped the transition. If you can’t get that work from clients, write blogs and articles about it for your firm.

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