In this hyper-impossible job market, is there ever a reason to leave a job? Or decline a job offer? The uncomfortable reality is that to walk away from a job or job offer means to seek another – to run to another, and five cover letters in, it starts to feel like any new job will do.

Following up on last week’s post on the scary state of public interest law, TeamGG is happy to offer the viewpoint of a legal aid attorney currently looking for a new job. The funding stream supporting her salary is “evaporating.” She wishes to remain anonymous to avoid jeopardizing employment prospects in her current search.
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When I see what’s happening in the world of public interest law, I feel like I’m living out the trailer to a horror film. First it was zombies, now it’s aliens, and here I am in blood-and-dirt-stained H&M biz-cas attire, running breathlessly toward an elusive exit, hoping I can defuse a student-loan bomb before [...]

For public interest job-seekers, the rigid regulation of law firm hiring is bizarre, and pretty much irrelevant. But it shouldn’t be. Thanks to the lack of formal regulation or self-regulation of the public interest legal world, public interest job-seekers lack even basic details on jobs.