Law for Business 10th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

Exercise 5

A paralegal worked for a lawyer who was under investigation for alleged misdeeds by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylavania. The paralegal revealed that the lawyer had written and back-dated a letter in order to deceive the board into thinking he had communicated with his client earlier, thereby hoping to avoid the disciplinary complaint. The paralegal was fired after the lawyer learned of her revelation. Was the firing a wrongful discharge in violation of public policy?