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Litigator taken off matter - bad sign?

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:42 am
by Anonymous User
I am a second year at a v10. I billed 2500 hours last year, almost had a nervous breakdown, and ended up with tachycardia and other stress related ailments. So, after my second ER visit, I stopped trying in January (went from 200+ hours a month to 120 ish).

I was on a bunch of cases and didn't even realize I was recently removed from one of my matters. Anyway, no one said anything to me, I just realized I hadn't gotten updates. I checked my matters page and it was gone. I planned on trying to coast out the rest of the year, but am now anxious this means I might get fired or did something egregious. AFIAK, I just stopped volunteering for that particular team when I was dealing with health issues. The team is quite large anyway.

Am I reading too much into this? Should I start looking for another job, basically?

Re: Litigator taken off matter - bad sign?

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:42 am
by Anonymous User
You're reading too much into this. You billed 2500 last year; there's no way they're firing you for a 120 hour month unless you did something particularly egregious like loosing a multi-million dollar client.120 hour months are fine; it's just a slow month. Everyone has those. I'm sure you'll have some 200+ hour months later in the year. It all balances out. Don't worry about it.

Re: Litigator taken off matter - bad sign?

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 4:26 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:
Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:42 am
I am a second year at a v10. I billed 2500 hours last year, almost had a nervous breakdown, and ended up with tachycardia and other stress related ailments. So, after my second ER visit, I stopped trying in January (went from 200+ hours a month to 120 ish).

I was on a bunch of cases and didn't even realize I was recently removed from one of my matters. Anyway, no one said anything to me, I just realized I hadn't gotten updates. I checked my matters page and it was gone. I planned on trying to coast out the rest of the year, but am now anxious this means I might get fired or did something egregious. AFIAK, I just stopped volunteering for that particular team when I was dealing with health issues. The team is quite large anyway.

Am I reading too much into this? Should I start looking for another job, basically?
I hope you said something to the partners you work for. If you're working that much, they obviously want/need you, and wouldn't just fire you if you said "I physically need to slow down". But if you just all of a sudden became unresponsive and stopped working, then yes, you should be worried they ask you to leave. You need to communicate.

(accidental anon)