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!