For the past year, my byline has appeared in the Connecticut Law Tribune atop freelance news articles. But this time, I’m writing to discuss how the day job I’ve held for the last 14 months exemplifies how lawyers can use their law degrees without working for traditional legal practices. I’m also writing to discuss the need for lawyers to take on advocacy for public access to information even if media companies are not a regular part of their clientele.
Until recently, I worked for the New York-based Media Law Resource Center (MLRC), a nonprofit which fights to protect the First Amendment and which serves as a trade association for media companies and as their outside counsel. During the decade I’ve spent as a journalist, I’ve encountered many legal issues: being sued for defamation in a frivolous lawsuit; figuring out if a judge was really entitled to secrete away in his chambers a portion of a murder case file; looking into whether public record laws voted on by legislators and signed by governors apply to the judiciary, an independent branch of government. So it was a thrill to get my first legal job at a nonprofit that has been working for 30 years to advance the First Amendment and a body of law that protects the press.
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