LinkedIn Forum

[lawhopeful10]

How useful/necessary is LinkedIn for lawyers? Thanks in advance.

[ph14]

How useful/necessary is LinkedIn for lawyers? Thanks in advance.

Not very useful or necessary. The main benefit for me is looking at people's profiles that I will be interviewing with as part of interview due diligence.

[adonai]

It is good for keeping track of people you know/have worked with. Also good for looking at others' profiles to see their work history and what they did to get to where they are now. Other than that, I think it is such BS that they advertise it like you will get a job from it.

[A. Nony Mouse]

I use it to stalk people - e.g. figure out what my classmates are doing, find people doing a job I'm applying for and look at their qualifications, etc. You see all these things saying "join groups on LinkedIn!" so I did, and oh. my. god. I have never seen such useless self-promotion and stupid conversation in my life. Makes TLS look like an online forum for Nobel prize winners (I mean, ALL of TLS, not just the good bits).

[iconoclasttt]

It's an extremely thinly veiled recruiting tool. I've gotten a fair number of unsolicited inquiries from recruiters via my profile.

For lawyers, I think it's also slowly displacing the law firm bio, to the extent clients ever rely on such things. It's a lot easier to update a LinkedIn profile than to get the firm bio updated.

[Dany]

I enjoy Linkedin, but I wouldn't call it useful or necessary.