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Heard-Leak: Valuable Lessons for Defense Counsel

patinoBy Nicole Patino

“I kept asking how I could improve, but my supervisor would never tell me what I was doing wrong, and when I was fired, it came out of the blue.”

It’s a complaint that we repeatedly hear as clients come into our offices, sure that they are victims of wrongful termination. They often point to positive performance evaluations and a lack of “write-ups” as evidence of their strong job performance. Some say that they only had a passing conversation with a manager regarding something that they could improve on. Often these employees are angry because they believe that they could have improved their performance had they just been given more indications of what they were doing wrong before they were terminated from their employment.

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