most talks with lawyers do not lead to court. They can give plenty of useful advice in many other situations. Just knowing how to frame things with the next job for example.

now granted it isn't worth it for most of us to bother. However if there is any doubt ten minutes and a few dollars is worth the cost.

Yes a lawyer is going to be able to give you career advice and tell you how to phrase the answer to the question “why did you leave your last job”?

I already knew what to do. Remove any connections from LinkedIn of anyone who knew that I was PIPed. I knew that any employment verification would go through TheWorkNumber and all it would know were dates and comp amount.

Not that anyone asked…