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Hey Mario, sorry to hear about your friend's situation, but the comments up to this point seem to be on the mark. Deal with it, take legal action, or seek other employment. The only other option I can think of would be to take her skills and training and set up her own legal practice. Maybe she could hire herself out on a contract basis? I have no idea if that's feasable for her, or how one goes about that in the legal profession but a lot of people who have lost jobs where they were employed by others have started their own businesses, and many end up doing quite well.

I have been self employed for most of my adult life, and while on occasion I envy those with "real jobs", for the most part I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't have the routine of regular, predictable hours, but my days are not spent totally stressed because of a crummy boss or co worker. I may have the occasional hard to please customer, but jobs only last so long, and I can deal with it until I'm done and on to the next one. I don't have the security of a regular paycheck and benefits, but I don't worry about being unemployed.

I feel sorry for people who have had good paying jobs with all the benefits (health ins. retirement, etc.), have worked for a company for years and are looking forward to retirement, then the business folds or downsizes, and they get a pink slip. This scenario has turned a lot of lives upside down. Their comfortable world has just dissolved and some people don't know what they will do. Sure, this economy is really putting a big hurt on us, but we're used to ups and downs, and although this down is the worst yet, the years of being self employed have made us tougher, and we have a resourcefullness (is thaty a word?!?) that helps us know we will always find some way to make a living. Deb and Mainely, you're right on, you roll up your sleeves and do what you have to do!

I often remember an interview I saw on the news years ago at a time when a lot of middle management positions were being eliminated because companies were down sizing. A very sympathetic reporter was talking with a very sharp dressed man (think major yuppie) who had lost his job two years prior to that, and didn't know what he and his family were going to do. They had gone through their savings, amassed a lot of credit card debt, and in two years he had not been able to find a job. I actually spoke out loud to him as he sat there feeling so sorry for himself and said "you are one sorry SOB! You can't work with your hands? You can't operate a cash register? You can't drive a truck? Cut grass, swing a hammer? Oh yeah, I guess all those kinds of jobs are beneath you! I guess if you can't make the right amount of money, you just won't work?! And heaven forbid that your wife should actually have to find work too! Give me a break!" Yeah I was really put off by that.

DrumWild, I do feel your pain. We are there too. But we are determined to do what we need to to dig ourselves out.
End of rant! Mario, our best to your friend. Hope she finds a way to make it.
Chris