Too long on the beach - Corporate Attorney Axiom Law Employee Review

Great communication and transparency throughout my contract, assistance with benefits if needed.

Weekly meeting sometimes felt unnecessary.

Junior, less experienced, and some senior lawyers may be able to land some engagements to list on their resumes. One or all may even help them find a permanent role or more temporary roles, but most likely they will spend considerable time without an engagement - "on the beach" - as it is known.

The harsh reality of platforms like Axiom is that they market themselves as an elite executive sandbox, but in practice, they often operate as high-volume, low-margin staffing agencies. This is Axiom. They capture the premium from the client, pay the attorney a relatively low hourly wage (your plumber and electrician probably make more), leaves the attorney with commoditized commercial contracts (NDAs, vendor MSAs), and trap true C-suite legal minds in a bureaucratic layer with minimal benefits.