Associate Laid Off Twice in Four Months Looks at the Bright Side
Associate Inna Efimchik has had a rough four months.
Efimchik was a corporate associate at the law firm Heller Ehrman when it dissolved last fall, the Recorder reports. But the fourth-year associate was able to land on her feet at Cooley Godward Kronish, moving there with a group of Heller partners and associates.
Less than four months later, she was laid off along with 51 other Cooley lawyers, the story says. But Efimchik is looking at the bright side.
“At first I was really upset,” Efimchik told the publication. “And then I thought, they did me a favor by hiring me in the first place—I’ve had a job for the last 3½ months, I got severance, and another great firm on the resumé.”
The job market has changed since Efimchik graduated from University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. She got so many calls from recruiters in her early days at Heller that “it was sort of annoying because you can’t get through the day,” she told the publication. “You start to think that you’re so marketable: You went to the right school; you’re the cream of the crop.”
Now she is finding there are few job openings and a surplus of applicants. She told the Recorder her resumé is “updated and pretty” and she is “networking as wildly as I can.”
