ACC Focus on the New Jersey Chapter - 03/06/2009  (Plain Text Version)

In-House Lawyers and Online Professional Networking

Eugene M. Weitz, Barbra Levy & Michael Prokop

The New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association is now a group on Linked In

The Technology Law and Career Management and Transition Committees of the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association (“NJCCA”) are pleased to announce and invite your participation in a new NJCCA Linked In group.  Please check us out and join our group.

• If you are already a Linked In member, all you need to do is click the group link below or search for ”NJCCA” on the Groups page and request to join.
  
  
• If you are not a Linked In member, you can join at any time.  It is a free and easy-to-use professional networking site.  Just click on the Linked In link below.  We’ll be glad to help you set up your own Linked In profile if you are interested.  You will find that many of your colleagues already are onboard with Linked In and you easily can start building your connections.

This Linked In group will be limited exclusively to NJCCA members.  With your participation in developing Discussion Boards and other tools, we believe Linked In can be used by our members, as more than a convenient online Rolodex.  For example, our NJCCA group can serve as a platform for career networking, brainstorming with NJCCA committee leaders on program ideas, or soliciting advice from your colleagues on how others have generally handled a matter.

We hope you will consider joining our NJCCA group on the Linked In virtual network.  LinkedIn, and specifically our LinkedIn group for NJCCA members, will enable you to engage in online professional networking with your legal colleagues at other companies throughout New Jersey.

If you’d like more information about Linked In and its benefits beyond job-hunting, check out this list of the “Top 10 ways to use Linked In."

If you are interested in developing a Discussion Board, please let the Linked In Group Administrators know or prior to signing up you can contact NJCCA Board member Eugene Weitz at weitz@alcatel-lucent.com.  We welcome any other feedback you have about how to make this Linked In group more valuable to our membership.