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What to know before jumping into a career as an open source lawyer

You can improve your odds of landing a job as a tech trans attorney, and at getting and succeeding at open source work once you get that job, if you:

Have a tech job first. Working for a few years in tech is the best thing you can do to help you succeed in technology law.

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