Pluspunten
The pay for associates is good. A lot of the people that work here are nice and trying to do their best in a chaotic environment. The founding partner does have a lot of experience and you can learn a thing or two from him if you are able to hear the lessons through the rest of the noise he generates. Both the partners leave the office by 3 at the latest most days, which is nice unless you need them for something.
Minpunten
First, please be aware that the reviews dated April 29, May 4, and May 13th are definitely fake. They are supposedly written by staff who worked here for more than one year, but due to the turnover rate at this place, only one person has actually lasted that long and they would not rate this place five stars. Also, if you ever meet the founding partner, you will see that they are clearly written in his voice. I have also heard since I left that management is asking people to write positive reviews on here to try and balance out the bad ones. The other positive reviews could be real, but I doubt it and the real people they could have be written by have worked here less than one or two months. The turnover rate is high. I worked here for approximately six months and at least two people left every month. This is not a large firm so that means that outside of one paralegal, the entire legal support staff turned over during my brief time there. The founding partner is a generally abrasive person who can be challenging to work for or be around. I personally was not bothered by him, but I can certainly see why others would be, especially the women who work for him. He is the main driver of the high turnover rate among paralegals and legal assistants. He is the kind of person who has ever shifting expectations and expects those around him to anticipate his shift in expectations without any communication. If you are reading this and applying for a legal or executive assistant position under him, I would say it is only worth it if they give you at least 100,000 dollars per year to compensate the for the immense emotional labor you will be asked to do in addition to your actual job. Overall, he is a good lawyer but a bad leader. If he is having a bad day for whatever personal reason, that becomes everyones problem. The non founding partner seems either totally overwhelmed or completely checked out to me. Getting even a small task completed with her requires a ton of follow up, and even with written and in person follow ups things still do not move. For me, it was challenging to have turning in work be almost as much work as the work itself due to the amount follow up required to get approval to proceed. Overall, this place makes a lot of things harder than they need to be.