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One of our readers wants to know your recommendations for the best way to deal with a period of unemployment on your resume. Whether you took a year off to travel the world or were unceremoniously fired for failing to meet expectations, how do you explain those gaps to future employers? Do you leave it off the resume and explain it if they ask? Do you put an explanation on the resume? If you were fired, how do you explain it in a way that doesn’t just make you or your previous employer look bad?
Immediately hang out a shingle and keep working while looking for a new firm job. In that way there is no break in employment, you may be able to drag in some client's that you can bring with you as an employment incentive and you can always spin it with the "left the firm to open own practice in order to spend more time with my family, tending my garden, raising orphaned bilgesnipe for re-release to the wild or developing perpetual motion." It helps to join a few organizations that could potentially require more time than an associate would normally have available. No need to explain that it took a bunch of time. Let the prospective new employer reach their own conclusions. How to explain being fired? Don't, unless some vindictive partner, associate, IT manager, file clerk or janitor from you prior firm is likely to release your evaluations to Ralston. Oh, and why return to firm life now? You have achieved the goals you set for yourself and now desire to return to a larger firm to advance your professional aspirations. That and the time constraints that required you to leave the firm life before have now been resolved and you can go back to committing 22 hours a day to billing the insanely high minimums the employer requires. Or you can just go flip burgers and once again be a happy and productive human. Your choice.
From my experience in hiring associates, I would say you should definitely try to explain it on your resume. I look at long, unexplained breaks in employment with skepticism. The same goes for short stints at a law firm. If you were only employed by a firm for a year or less, you should explain the circumstances.
8:33 AM is right though, you should definitely start trying to do some kind of legal work on your own if you can't find a full-time gig. Do some independent contracting or handle tickets for your friends. Whatever you can do to say that you're out there getting experience.
Find some part-time legal work/projects. Some small firms with heavy work loads are willing to pay by the hour for you to work at home doing periodic motions, legal research, deposition digests, document summaries, etc. Then you can tell future employers that between dates X and Y, you did freelance legal work as a independent contractor.
8.33 is spot on.
do this file a worthless lawsuit then do not do your homework to even check with the county clerk to see if there is a trust dead add lots of defendants and churn your clients account like the plaintiffs lawyer did in this case ttps://www.clarkcountycourts.us/Anonymous/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=8935469
Posting a direct link doesn't work unless the person clicks on the link while in your browser session – i.e. it just works for you. What's the actual case #?
A-11-642017-C
whats a trust dead?
if your interested read the case it's interesting but to sum up somebody did not produce a deed of trust
You mean reed the case
hope somebody paid their malpractice premiums