I'm in a predicament as my small firm was sanctioned (the same week that I was hired and I had no idea) about 6 months ago and because my boss had loose ethics, he and his firm are getting sanctioned again for continued violation of the earlier sanction. I honestly doubt this firm can survive another sanction with huge fines. They're appealing but the judge already ruled against them in the first sanction hearing. Also this judge is no fool. She's a no nonsense judge and knows wtf is going on. The firm fired the entire non-lawyer staff and rehired them as temporary workers. I've been largely shielded and kept in ignorance of it all because I'm just a lowly low paid law clerk doing the actual substantive law work.
The question is, do I jump ship now knowing that nobody will hire me until my bar passage result in May? Or do I stick around until May to build more experience and make whatever I can? My fear is that if the entire law firm and its attorneys are sanctioned, I might also be implicated/harmed in some way.
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Re: Should I jump ship from this firm going under sanction or hold out till May Bar results?
Leave if you can afford it. It sounds like they will collapse anyway. You will be answering questions in interviews about it. It will be better if you can say you left when you found out.Anonymous User wrote:I'm in a predicament as my small firm was sanctioned (the same week that I was hired and I had no idea) about 6 months ago and because my boss had loose ethics, he and his firm are getting sanctioned again for continued violation of the earlier sanction. I honestly doubt this firm can survive another sanction with huge fines. They're appealing but the judge already ruled against them in the first sanction hearing. Also this judge is no fool. She's a no nonsense judge and knows wtf is going on. The firm fired the entire non-lawyer staff and rehired them as temporary workers. I've been largely shielded and kept in ignorance of it all because I'm just a lowly low paid law clerk doing the actual substantive law work.
The question is, do I jump ship now knowing that nobody will hire me until my bar passage result in May? Or do I stick around until May to build more experience and make whatever I can? My fear is that if the entire law firm and its attorneys are sanctioned, I might also be implicated/harmed in some way.
