I lateraled to a new firm a few months back and have had a few interactions with a junior partner who has a bad reputation and has proven that in my few interactions with them. I got sucked into working on a specific client that is overseas and attended a board meeting via zoom last week where two board members have raised alarms to the company’s counsel (us) about certain actions at that meeting. I reached out to jr partner once to say I had no idea that xyz was the case…cont’d

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Valid. I would put your thoughts on the revisions and situation in writing. I would also speak to the main partner. I know it’s hard and others might disagree but don’t jeopardize your law license, credibility, or reputation.

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Junior partner sort of brushed it aside and said the minutes (which I took and they revised) are accurate and there are no issues. The board member has since forwarded more emails and said if xyz goes through they will resign and notify the SEC as a whistleblower. Junior partner meanwhile wants me to look at board minutes and finalize (I do not agree with what is in them currently although I prepped the first draft).

I’m now concerned about my liability and prefer not continue working on this client with this junior partner.

Am I valid or being paranoid?

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Follow your gut!!! It’ll be hard but it’ll also be ok.

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Thank you - I should mention there was a translator at the board meeting as the company is not a US company and most board members and EOs are in another country, but the translator was not good (not an official translator). Because of that I am not sure how much was lost in translation, but it appears there’s something shady going on.

Update apparently a board member emailed the named partners at our firm bc they weren’t getting a response from this jr partner.

One managing partner spoke to me and asked if I was uncomfortable bc he thinks she’s doing something wrong; I said yes and forwarded him all my objections I sent to her.

This jr partner calls me three times that day and I finally speak to her the following day where she tries to tell me I’m confused and nothing wrong occurred.

She then emails me at 5:30 pm today asking me to turn something else for this client by tmrw morning. Our firm actually does not encourage weekend work and most partners respect your time. This one is lazy and likes to pawn work off on everyone else at the last minute therefore I am not responding, as I have work for three other partners ahead of her that I need to complete by Wednesday before Xmas (Non big law firm and just received a rave review from leadership along with a nice raise and bonus).

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