Husband001
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CALIFORNIA
First, let me apologize if this is the incorrect place to post this, but it seemed like the best place. Second, please allow me to give you a bit of background on the problem and hopefully you can help me or direct me to someplace on the web that can.
My wife is an associate at a major law firm in Los Angeles. She graduated from law school near the top of her class and is diligent in her work. On the majority of her evaluations, she has been praised as a good lawyer.
However...
There is a senior associate at the firm that consistently behaves erratically and with disrespect towards her. Not only her I should add, others have also sufferered under this associate's verbal abuse and derision. However, my wife has reached the end of her rope. Her stress level is through the roof, she doesn't eat enough and she often comes home and cries in my arms.
Although I do not work at the firm, I am not a lawyer, I have encountered people like this in my life. She has been described to me as ambitious, does her work adequately, but isn't anything special. She seems determined to step on anyone she needs to reach the top. She is careful to only work with partners who give her good reviews (which I hear is down to One) and has dodged a few bullets in the past that may have gotten her sacked.
But now to the nutshell: My wife finally took her complaints to the attorney coordinator and her direct supervising partner and...they aren't doing anything. "The Path of Least Resistance" or "do nothing and hopefully this will go away" approach. I cannot accept this. There are several junior associates and support staff who have also suffered. Some junior associates left the firm soley because they had to work with this abusive associate, but said nothing for fear of their careers. Only my wife had the courage to take a stand, but now she is in fear of her own career, as nobody seems to want to do a damn thing to stop this Abusive Associate from destroying other employeers who are not up the "superior work standards" this person pretends to have.
What can my wife do now? I have told her to just keep her head down for now and see what happens and continue to look for work elsewhere. I am so fed up I told her to just quit, even though I am unemployed right now, I just can't take it that this abuse will continue. What is the advice you would give my wife in this situation or can you please tell me what I should do next or where to look next if you don't know?
Thank you,
Husband who loves his wife, who has already suffered enough on many other things.
First, let me apologize if this is the incorrect place to post this, but it seemed like the best place. Second, please allow me to give you a bit of background on the problem and hopefully you can help me or direct me to someplace on the web that can.
My wife is an associate at a major law firm in Los Angeles. She graduated from law school near the top of her class and is diligent in her work. On the majority of her evaluations, she has been praised as a good lawyer.
However...
There is a senior associate at the firm that consistently behaves erratically and with disrespect towards her. Not only her I should add, others have also sufferered under this associate's verbal abuse and derision. However, my wife has reached the end of her rope. Her stress level is through the roof, she doesn't eat enough and she often comes home and cries in my arms.
Although I do not work at the firm, I am not a lawyer, I have encountered people like this in my life. She has been described to me as ambitious, does her work adequately, but isn't anything special. She seems determined to step on anyone she needs to reach the top. She is careful to only work with partners who give her good reviews (which I hear is down to One) and has dodged a few bullets in the past that may have gotten her sacked.
But now to the nutshell: My wife finally took her complaints to the attorney coordinator and her direct supervising partner and...they aren't doing anything. "The Path of Least Resistance" or "do nothing and hopefully this will go away" approach. I cannot accept this. There are several junior associates and support staff who have also suffered. Some junior associates left the firm soley because they had to work with this abusive associate, but said nothing for fear of their careers. Only my wife had the courage to take a stand, but now she is in fear of her own career, as nobody seems to want to do a damn thing to stop this Abusive Associate from destroying other employeers who are not up the "superior work standards" this person pretends to have.
What can my wife do now? I have told her to just keep her head down for now and see what happens and continue to look for work elsewhere. I am so fed up I told her to just quit, even though I am unemployed right now, I just can't take it that this abuse will continue. What is the advice you would give my wife in this situation or can you please tell me what I should do next or where to look next if you don't know?
Thank you,
Husband who loves his wife, who has already suffered enough on many other things.