{"id":273,"date":"2007-06-29T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/06\/29\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T20:55:54","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/06\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, and thanks for all the fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my last official day of work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalaideducation.org\">Center for Legal Aid Education<\/a> (n\u00e9e Legal Aid University), where I&#8217;ve been employed since 2003 or so. (The exact start date is hazy because the organization started out as a project, incorporating independently in Jan 2006). While I officially left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlri.org\">Mass Law Reform Institute<\/a> last October to become a fellow at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\">Berkman Center<\/a>, I hadn&#8217;t yet said goodbye because CLAE shares space with MLRI.<\/p>\n<p>Working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslegalservices.org\">Website Project<\/a> at MLRI was an astonishingly good opportunity for someone had just graduated law school in 2002 with a technological bent and an interest in the public good &#8212; even more so considering that the dot-com bust had wiped out so many other similar options. (Ironically, I found the job reading a paper copy of the Boston Globe&#8217;s help wanted section). Helping found LAU\/CLAE &#8212; launched with a grant awarded only months after I started at MLRI &#8212; was an even sweeter serendipity. I had fallen in love with online instructional design in my last year of school while taking a course at Harvard&#8217;s Ed School, but chances of my ever using what I&#8217;d learned were slim until that <a href=\"http:\/\/tig.lsc.gov\/\">Technology Initiative Grant<\/a> arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to be moving on to the next phase of my career, but I&#8217;m also glad to be leaving at a moment when, I believe, CLAE is about to hit a major positive inflection point. Things are looking good for the Center for Legal Aid Education (news of a new Big Deal will be on the site soon), and I hope to remain involved with its future success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my last official day of work at the Center for Legal Aid Education (n\u00e9e Legal Aid University), where I&#8217;ve been employed since 2003 or so. (The exact start date is hazy because the organization started out as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/06\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anderkoos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}