Any stories of people getting admitted to the NY bar despite getting fired from their first legal job? For context I was fired from my first big law job during Covid-April last year, due to performance issues and failure to meet billables. They’ve remained somewhat neutral on my employment affidavit by leaving the box regarding satisfactory performance blank and indicating it’s firm policy to only verify dates of employment. Am rather nervous! Thoughts? Has anyone gone through this? How?

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This is typical.

You should confirm with them what they would say if queried further by a prospective employer. Have a friend call and pose as prospective employer HR for a reference check.

And you should come up with an explanation for future employers like "not enough work in my group" that you can say in a neutral to upbeat tone so you don't hamstring your jobsearch.

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