The Young Texas Lawyer

So you’ve lost your job. So you still don’t have a job offer. So you don’t have recruiters banging down your door. So what? Sometimes you have to think outside the box. An attorney’s skill set is not limited to one industry or one job.

David E. Behrend of Career Planning Services for Lawyers agrees that there are other opportunities out there for lawyers and they need to start looking at them. ”I firmly believe that almost all lawyers with their education have employment security, but not necessarily job security,” he said, “meaning that they should be able with some assistance to find capable work of a professional nature.”

Many newly licensed attorneys and those that find themselves without a job are having little luck finding a new position simply due to the fact that they are limiting their search to what they have done in the past. There comes a point in one’s career where he or she must grow up and realize that your law degree has lost some value over the last year and perhaps it may be time to start looking for a job outside your comfort zone. Don’t go apply for a job flipping hamburgers, but don’t turn your nose up at those non-attorney positions either.