Date: April 30th, 2024 10:58 AM
Author: jet location
I had a junior associate who was hired during covid. This associate would not take off her mask, ever, and she would actually tell senior attys she was busy with other work and couldnt take on their urgent pretrial project. She once took a brief of mine and went through each double space after a sentence and converted it to a single space, and she kept trying to change me "see" tags. She screwed up a major point in a federal court hearing that I had just argued and the judge hadn't yet ruled on by arguing her trivial point in such a way as to counteract my motion. She was told when she started that she could come in around 10 or so--the meaning is that we are not sticklers on start times--so she would always come in at 10 even when it was clear people were getting annoyed. She would leave right at 5 evry day, walking past all of us who were still working, walking past paralegals who wanted to kill her. I would ask her to do a research memo and it was terrible--just like a bullet point sketch. I asked her to paginate a document before we showed it to a mock jury so we could be clear about the parts the mock jury was talking about--she just didnt do it. She told me she didnt really like PI work and really wanted to be a trusts and estates atty. She would never attend any conventions and would piss clients off a lot.
We were going to make a decision about her but she changed law firms to another PI shop--w a starting salary of six figures--
Anyway, it turns out she had some adverse employment action taken at that new place after a year or so, and I saw her on linkedin and she had "liked" a couple articles on "how neurotypicals should accommodate autistics."
So it wasnt until then that I thought--OH! That's why she pissed everyone off all the time.
Anyway, I can see how it's hard for autistic attys.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523107&forum_id=2Reputation#47621105)