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Congratulations. Out of curiosity, did you ever contemplate working with legal technology?

I'm not advocating eDiscovery work in any way. It sounds like you are currently headed in a (IMO) more interesting direction.

However, legal tech would be more in line with your education if you actually have an interest in pursuing / maintaining a legal career.

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Yes I did. Even though I'm a big Linux guy, I bought a computer with Windows installed, learned C#, and was starting a legal software company when I got the paid internship. I decided to take the internship, because spending three months programming Ruby/Padrino/MongoDB with good programmers and learning from them would be very educational. I can always start my own startup later. eDiscovery is going to make someone tons of money.

You made the right call. Having that experience under your belt will serve you very well.

It's an interesting field in its own right, and is becoming increasingly competitive and sophisticated (full disclosure : I work in it).

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