As Paralegal Applies to Home Depot, Lucky Associate Finds Lower-Paid Job
After a decade as a paralegal at Pepe & Hazard, Michael Wallace isn’t having much luck finding another job since being laid-off in January. Recently, the 60-year-old sought to apply his construction law experience to a nonlegal position at Home Depot.
“There’s really not much out there,” Wallace, whose resume also features a stint as president of a Connecticut paralegal association, tells the Connecticut Law Tribune. “I’ve given up just looking for a paralegal position. I’d take anything.”
Attorney Joanne Rapuano considers herself lucky to have landed at Shepro & Blake within two months of losing her job as a commercial litigation associate in the Stamford, Conn., office of the Dreier firm, even though it requires her to practice law “outside of my comfort zone.” Her new practice focus is bankruptcy, family law, mortgage foreclosure and worker’s compensation matters.
She is thinking about moonlighting as a waitress to supplement her income, the legal publication reports.
