If an attorney at a law firm gets disbared then what happens to his employees (Legal assistants)?
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at
3:23 am
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Legal assistants HAVE TO work under the supervision of a valid attorney. If he is the only attorney that employed them, they no longer have someone to work "for". If he was part of a firm and not in private/ solo practice, then they might be employees of the law firm as a whole.
No lawyer, no job.
They are looking for a job.
In a law firm, they are either laid off or transferred within the firm.
Hate to be glib in this response, but I would seek other employment.. It would be the same as a business shutting
down,,, On the other hand if this attorney made his employees
a part of the reason for his disbarment, you might have legal
recourse,
If there’s more than one attorney at the firm then they can just work for another attorney at the firm.
Generally, it’s not a good sign for your long-term prospects if you work for an attorney who is disbarred.
The legal assistants work for the firm so nothing would happen to them unless they participated in some wrong doing.
They are reassigned to other attorneys. If he was a sole practitioner than they are unemployed.