Harrison advises being careful about how you explain being out of work.
Saying the firm has laid off people is a good explanation, but it's important to be careful with wording.
Law firms prefer to hire laid-off people, so mentioning being laid off may actually be beneficial.
It's crucial to choose the right words when explaining your situation to potential employers.
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If you're out of work, just say the firm's laid all these people off. There have been many headlines, of course, in the past weeks.
There's a lot of ways to explain you're out of work and this is a big question. You could say things like the law firm that's entirely out of corporate work. There are different things you could say. Law firms don't like to hire people. I've talked about this a lot in previous webinars, but they prefer to hire laid-off people.
So it would be best if you were very careful about that. You want to make sure that anything you say about being laid off and that sort of thing is careful.
