Attorney looking for entirely WFH job

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you work for the federal government as an attorney. I’d keep a federal job in this economy if possible. I thought I heard something about paid leave to care for children in legislation recently. I know I’ve seen several threads on the forum about childcare issues and maybe someone has an idea that would work without you giving up a stable federal attorney job during a pandemic? Childcare is a mess right now, but I wouldn’t give up my federal job without a fight during this pandemic.

It seems like nearly everyone is teleworking right now in the federal government. Are you able to telework? Does your agency have field offices? Or could you transfer to an agency with field offices near your rural area? You’d be at home, but you’d still have a federal job with stability and benefits. And, you’d likely have a telework job for the foreseeable future/during the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The federal government probably won’t be hiring many people for some time due to the pandemic. However, I am working at home full time as an attorney advisor for the Social Security Administration. Normally, attorneys in my office can telework from home for three to four days a week. I used to be a state prosecutor, but this is a better job for raising a family due to less stress and a regular schedule. I went to a top ten law school and we have many great attorneys in the office that want work life balance and to live in a rural area.

The Social Security Administration has hearing offices all over the country and you just need to be within a two-hour drive to work at an office (which is not that bad with three or four days at home). My hearing office is in a city of 100,000 people, but I live an hour away in a town of 10,000 people. Salary is okay for a rural area. I’m a GS-12 now and there is sometimes overtime on the weekends to bump your salary up. I could possibly move up to a GS-13 senior attorney advisor someday. Anything higher and I’d have to find a different federal attorney job. There is the possibility of becoming an Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration one day and you sound like you might have a chance with a good law school and litigation experience.

https://aljdiscussion.proboards.com/thread/4377/thoughts-on-decision-writer-positionexperience before coming to SSA.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/840767.page#16053461

This is OP. Thank you for this.

[Anonymous]

Littler has 100% work from home attorney jobs. See, e.g., https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/LIT1003LITME/JobBoard/0ece97ba-dd32-4d62-8c5e-1663f6040db1/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=95fcbd90-b4b6-442c-aeb4-04dda0b43a69

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Littler has 100% work from home attorney jobs. See, e.g., https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/LIT1003LITME/JobBoard/0ece97ba-dd32-4d62-8c5e-1663f6040db1/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=95fcbd90-b4b6-442c-aeb4-04dda0b43a69

If you don't want to click on the link, go to their website and look for the Case Smart attorney jobs. Those are 100% remote.

[Anonymous]

You could look at immigration appellate work or Board of Immigration Appeals work- they let people work remotely

[Anonymous]

there are few agencies that hiring now. look at HHS. not 100% wfh but you may be able to work something out with your expiernece

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I currently work for the federal government. I was assuming an all telework job would be another government job or maybe working for one of the legal publishers? I don’t have the right personality to be a legal recruiter but maybe that’s a WFH job? In other words, I am willing to do something different from what I have been doing. Is there contract work that pays decently that you can do from home? If so, is it all document review?

Legal recruiters travel...to recruit people. Can you bring family to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I currently work for the federal government. I was assuming an all telework job would be another government job or maybe working for one of the legal publishers? I don’t have the right personality to be a legal recruiter but maybe that’s a WFH job? In other words, I am willing to do something different from what I have been doing. Is there contract work that pays decently that you can do from home? If so, is it all document review?

Legal recruiters travel...to recruit people. Can you bring family to you?

Yep, recruiters travel plus it helps them to live in or travel frequently to a major market where the talent and clients are (such as NYC).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Littler has 100% work from home attorney jobs. See, e.g., https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/LIT1003LITME/JobBoard/0ece97ba-dd32-4d62-8c5e-1663f6040db1/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=95fcbd90-b4b6-442c-aeb4-04dda0b43a69

If you don't want to click on the link, go to their website and look for the Case Smart attorney jobs. Those are 100% remote.

Interesting! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I currently work for the federal government. I was assuming an all telework job would be another government job or maybe working for one of the legal publishers? I don’t have the right personality to be a legal recruiter but maybe that’s a WFH job? In other words, I am willing to do something different from what I have been doing. Is there contract work that pays decently that you can do from home? If so, is it all document review?

Legal recruiters travel...to recruit people. Can you bring family to you?

Yep, recruiters travel plus it helps them to live in or travel frequently to a major market where the talent and clients are (such as NYC).

I didn’t realize that. Recruiting isn’t a good for me because I don’t have the right personality anyway. I was giving examples of jobs lawyers do that are law adjacent. My only experience with recruiters is from when I was working at a law firm and they would cold call, so my perception was that a lot of their work is done over the phone. But it was a poor example anyway. My point was just that I’m open to doing something that’s not the practice of law.

[Anonymous]

Family law.

My sister-in-law is an attorney that specializes in adoptions. Most work is helping families in the US adopt from abroad, but she also has cases in the US working with agencies to adopt within the US. She was working part-time in the office and part-time at home. She realized since the quarantine that there isn't a problem working from home. Since my nephew is now an adult and has his own place, she is going to turn his room into her home office and work from there.

We also used a surrogate to have our twins (now 8). But when we were interviewing lawyers and firms to help us, two of the lawyers we worked with were family law lawyers working from home. So it is not unusual in family law (from my exposure).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or you could you know, hire a nanny to care for your toddler during the day so you can work.

This. Hire a nanny or have your child in daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or you could you know, hire a nanny to care for your toddler during the day so you can work.

This. Hire a nanny or have your child in daycare.

???

[Anonymous]

I also have one of these jobs and also got it after I worked in an office for a number of years and had proven myself. Most of the time, you find these jobs through personal contacts.

[Anonymous]

I think you should look for a job in the small town. Getting a job there (or hanging out your shingle) is at least as likely as getting a remote job that lets you live anywhere. I am a Fed with a great WFH schedule but even I'm required to be in the local commuting area and able to come in -- I can't live just anywhere.

I also agree with PP that you should move your family here if they're willing to come. Either put them in a nearby apartment or buy a house that fits all of you together. I tried this but couldn't persuade my parents to move. Kinda hoping this latest round of enforced distance changes their minds.