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Just tell them business was slow.
Are you in BL? Time entry is pretty essential at my v10. Nearly everyone in my practice group (that’s like over 100 people) get their times in every day. You need to adjust that part of your practice—not doing so hits your firm’s bottom line, and will be a fireable offense at your next firm as well.
I’d recommend entering time every day at your next job. I’ve worked in semi-regional law firms my whole career in private practice. People who didn’t enter time every day that weren’t equity were made to fail for other reasons and fired.
Getting fired for this rather than giving you a simple heads-up suggests that this was just a convenient excuse to let you go
For context, they said I could say that I still worked there for as long as I needed or that I could say they let me go because of restructuring (guessing they feel guilty about how they let me go). My problem is I have no idea what response the firm would give if a recruiter called them to verify my employment and I don't want to seem like a liar if their response doesn't match mine.
Thanks for the suggestions. Should I be worried about my response not matching the firm's response if a recruiter called the firm to verify my employment?
Exactly. I’ve found when you’re in a situation like this, your employer likely isn’t going to do anything to make it difficult for you to find something else especially if it was primarily because of lack of work
As a new lawyer, I agree with others that you can keep it simple and say that the firm was not a good fit, or that business was slow in the practice area you are interested in. It would help if you had a trusted person you could provide as a reference going forward. As for docketing – for what it’s worth, I’d recommend entering your time as you go, every day, and close out your dockets the next morning for the prior day. If you docket while attending to the task, the detail is better, the time is more accurate, and you are less likely to ‘lose time’. Also, do not underestimate spelling, grammar, and detail. These are important to clients and therefore will be relevant to how you are perceived by the partners on the file with you.
You make a good point, but back when I used to have to keep time, it was a exercise in forensic accounting. They couldn’t penalize associates, and later, non equity partners (highest level I made it in big law before I moved on to other things) by docking pay (equity partners could get their distributions reduced for not entering time, well, on time), but I got threatened repeatedly with having direct deposit revoked.
Firm was going into area x and you do area or A senior partner is is the process of retiring and your services were no
Longer needed
I would actually tell them your story and discuss problems at the firm that fired you, why you thought it was failing, and why you wanted to leave anyway. Don’t be too negative, though.