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Why shouldn't their skills based on past experience be transferable to future matters?  If someone has obsolete skills, this makes sense. But what's obsolete about a laid off litigator, m and a, capital markets or bankruptcy attorney. Why shouldn't they draw on recent past experience to market themselves? And if they have to retool to some extent, their resumes are supporting evidence of their ability to successfully manage scenarios?
And one other question. Are you part of a biglaw firm?  If not, your interest in laid off attorneys is not relevant to the posters comment. [/quote]

I agree they should draw on their past experience to market themselves.  But they have to market themselves in terms of what they can do for future employers prospectively, rather than suggest that their past experiences speak for themselves.  That requires many associates to adopt a much more entrepreneurial attitude than they may have demonstrated in the past.

And, yes, I'm BigLaw.  As i said before, I've hired associates who were passed over at other firms if I thought they had skills that we lacked in our practice area at times when we were short-staffed.

As a prior poster mentioned, the cohort that really suffered were those who got laid off after the 2008 downturn before they ever had a chance to acquire significant, marketable expertise.  It was easier for big firms to just hire a fresh crop out of law schools when the market improved in order to maintain their relationships with the law school career services offices.  Law schools want to report higher percentages of students with "full time" jobs, even if those jobs turn out to be short-lived.  [/quote]

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