[blindLaw] Advice Accommodation Issues and Looking for Work

[Morgayne Mulkern]

Hi everyone!

 

I'd really appreciate only positive advice and support. Below you can see
the struggle.

1.	Does anyone know anywhere hiring? I can send along my resume. No Bar
License yet, but I have my J.D. graduated in May 2018 from Suffolk law
school. I am proficient in Spanish and mediation certified, too. Reach me at
morgaynemulkern at gmail.com <mailto:morgaynemulkern at gmail.com>  or
774-826-7428. Thanks!
2.	I'd rather not get into the specifics of this, but I have to leave
my current job - the first job out of law school because of accommodation
issues and the practicalities of management and limited resources and staff
which make it virtually impossible to get my work done responsibly, not to
mention the alienation and pushback I get when I reach out with requests.
One of these is the famous half handwritten PDFs. Prior work environments
and internships and court clinicals I did in law school were able to read
the dates and pertinent information from these documents, but where I'm at
now is not the "team environment" it was said to be and cannot "absorb"
these issues. They said a reader will take 3 months plus. They are currently
making my co-worker be my reader and its awful and counterproductive and not
sustainable given case backup.and makes it so that I can only be as
successful on my cases as he is available to help me with them (always
behind). I am getting no reassurance that outside help can be provided in a
timely manner and the everyday is exhausting/extremely uncomfortable because
of the way I am being treated for needing so much. I feel like I spend more
time explainaing  my disability and justifying everything I need than I am
able to be working on my cases.
3.	What should I say was my reason for leaving? I never would have left
had I not had the accommodation issues and related office tention.
4.	Advice on restoring confidence after this kind of experience? I have
felt so alienated and am trying to get back on my feet. 

 

Best,

Morgayne Mulkern