Lawyers and Staff Laid-Off – Go Virtual!
Carolyn Elefant over at My Shingle suggests in a post today that lawyers who are being laid off due to economic downturns consider going solo. I completely agree and I also recommend that support staff in the same boat consider a virtual career. It’s a difficult time to go through, but it can also be a wonderful opportunity to re-invent your career and your life.
Have you always wanted to live near the beach? Or maybe you want to move to a small town in a different state? You can live anywhere and have a virtual career. Or you can live "nowhere" and travel while you work!! You can be a virtual lawyer, a virtual assistant, a virtual paralegal or you can go off on another career path altogether and maybe be a business consultant, a marketing strategist or a teacher. You can do many of things virtually, or at least somewhat virtually. You’ll save money on your commute too!
It can be really hard to see something so upsetting as a lay-off as a good thing. And I can’t pretend to have been in the shoes of a legal secretary or lawyer who has been laid-off. But I think we all have had wrenches thrown into the works of our career plans and I know that we can’t change what is, we can only choose to move forward and hopefully make things better. Good luck to you all!
Laurie Mapp, Owner Halo Secretarial Services Contact us for more information on virtual legal assistance!

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