Where I’ve Been

“Delay is preferable to error.” – Thomas Jefferson

Well, it’s been a while.  Sorry to disappear for so long without leaving word of my forwarding address.

As many of you know, I have been on the hunt for a full-time legal job for some time.  I haven’t posted much on CE during these months; every time I sat down to write, I felt like I was betraying my job search (and, in turn, those who relied on my income).  I always assumed that when I found my next job, I would give it a few weeks to settle in, and then dive back into CE with a newfound enthusiasm.

Well, in January, I found my next step.  I am currently clerking for a judge in the Chancery Division of the Cook County Circuit Court.  It’s a phenomenal experience. (Emergency TROs to enforce noncompetes, administrative review of public-sector employment issues, analysis of every type of contract known to man… stop me when you’re jealous.)

A downside, though, is that I’m just not sure what this unexpected position means for the blog.  Suddenly, I have to worry about things that never were an issue before. Like impartiality. While CE has been purely informational (at best), much of it is tailored to specific types of clients, and occasionally meanders into legal advice.

I cannot practice while I’m clerking, for obvious reasons1 , and I need to make sure that my work out here in the wild west of professional responsibility that is legal blogging doesn’t affect my ability to appropriately do my job.

I don’t think that CE is dead, or that my blogging days are over.  I love this blog, and my twitter account, and all the people I have e-met because of them.2 I just don’t know exactly what direction CE can or will take in the near term, and am therefore taking the preferable route to error and holding off for now.

While I figure it out, please enjoy these other labor and employment blogs that were always much better than mine, anyway:

Gruntled Employees

Ohio Employer’s Law Blog

Work Matters

Connecticut Employment Law Blog

Delaware Employment Law Blog

HR Lawyer’s Blog

1. I’ve (also obviously) taken down the “Hire Tim” info, and will be re-vamping the “about” section and all that. [↩]
2. In fact, I would need two hands to count the people I’ve never met face-to-face who have helped me time and again during my job search. [↩]