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But:
1. Has she ever confronted the said two associates about their behaviour?
2. What is the culture that you set, by an email like this, the more powerful get to shit all over the less powerful, regardless of fault?
Makes no sense to be sending out emails like these with the world copied- not only spoils the careers of the associates in question, but also shows Avaantikaa in very poor light to potential recruits and quite frankly, even clients (like myself).
She could have chosen to simply Fire the said two associates- that would have been better. But alas', the adage that with great power, comes great responsibility, is lost to almost every law firm partner.
Please stop being horrible to your juniors, just because somebody else was horrible to you, when you were incompetent as a kid. We were all incompetent at some stage. Time and tide, fixes us.
There are a lot of people in the email
Will Avantika Kakkar or CAM HR find this out?
This is not a tribunal they don’t need to establish chain of custody before firing
A0s are most disposable in the law firm world
Avaantika needs to review everything leaving her desk a thousand times over. If there was a mistake in some math, it's her responsibility to catch it when Associates send the draft internally for review. Those Associates didn't sign on the draft filed with CCI, she or another partner did.
As someone on client side, I would be livid and fire them immediately. Simple professional responsibility aside, what exactly am I paying Partner rates and many billable hours for if this is the draft filed at the end of it?