By: Sindy Ding-Voorhees
This week we are pleased to present the second of three posts by guest blogger, Sindy Ding-Voorhees. Sindy graduated from Fordham's LL.M. program in Intellectual Property and Information Technology in 2013 and has since been working as an Intellectual Property attorney in New York and Washington D.C. She wrote this series of three articles to share her experiences and advice with our incoming LL.M. students. This week, she addresses how to succeed in an internship/externship. We are grateful for her contribution!
A primary goal in any internship is to complete
your part of the job, diligently and actively. That doesn’t necessarily mean
that you do it all by yourself, sit quietly in front of your computer
throughout all your hours. You can be a hard worker as well as a great team
player who is able to optimize workload, think
outside the box and ASK QUESTIONS (don’t be afraid!). A smart intern will
not only complete what s/he is supposed to do, but will also be CURIOUS about
the other parts of the work.
Here is my real experience when I worked at Coach,
Inc. during the first semester of my LL.M. year. Each intern was assigned a
certain amount of work doing online intellectual property monitoring and
enforcement. It was actually a pretty sweet position because we worked closely
with the senior counsels and the General Counsel.
