A lawyer who quit his job with a temporary lawyer placement firm to volunteer with a District Attorney in hopes of getting a better job is not entitled to unemployment compensation payments, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has held. Affirming a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, the Court said the lawyer did not have “a necessitous and compelling reason” for quitting the paid position. The lawyer collected unemployment compensation after being laid off by a law firm in December 2011. He subsequently took a job as a temporary attorney working for $30 an hour, without benefits, for a legal staffing agency that assigned him to a law firm where he worked 40 hours...