Michael Yang, the general counsel of the photo-sharing website Pinterest Inc., has been asked so often for advice about leaving Google Inc.’s legal department (which he did) that he has written an essay suggesting what factors to consider when making a move.

And Yang, a former deputy general counsel at Google before joining Pinterest in 2012, has plenty of good things to say about his former employer in “Should I Leave Google Legal?” on the social publishing platform Medium.
First, Yang asks the lawyers wondering about a post-Google career: Are you learning what you want to be learning?

“There is no other legal department that provides the opportunity to learn as much as you can in Google Legal,” he wrote. “First, there’s the sheer scope and impact of the company’s products, the immediately global nature of most issues, the level of scrutiny applied to the company, the willingness to stake out a position on what the law should be (and power to influence it) and the risk tolerance.”

Read more: www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202660477250/ExGoogle-Lawyer-on-Becoming-an-ExGoogle-Lawyer#ixzz35YQZf3VF

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