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Run, don't walk - Junior Paralegal Shane Smith Law Employee Review

1.0
May 8, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Wine Wednesdays once a month for morale.

Cons

Extremely disorganized and dishonest. Initially, I was told my starting date was being pushed back so they could update their training manual. When we did have training sessions on time (85% of the time it got canceled) the trainer was always saying she needed to update the cheat sheet documents. Training is disorganized and often goes on for 2 hours or more because they're behind on training. Multiple convoluted lessons in one session. Upper management has their favorites and it shows. Attorneys are not salaried after the first year. There are no partners at the firm. Extremely high turnover rate due to the firm only caring about metrics. Everyone is a number to them. They hire at least 2 new people weekly and are so busy training them that people hired 2 weeks ago get ignored for hours when needing help with a question. Speaking of questions, half the time you're told, "It's in the training document." What, the document you never updated? Hearing that after being reminded daily that HR "loves" answering questions, "reach out to me any time!" is disingenuous and mildly infuriating. Senior paralegals complain openly about juniors in the office-wide chat like they didn't start in that position themselves. Seniors whine when juniors take on more responsibility (taking a significant amount of stress off the seniors) and most are reluctant to help with questions when management is in a meeting, or oftentimes just left early that day. HR will call people out in the office-wide chat for mistakes rather than in a PM. Multiple new hires had to ask to work under a different senior due to seniors undermining juniors' work via complaints to HR, but will go and fix the issue themselves before the junior gets the chance to, effectively preventing any hands-on learning from mistakes and taking credit for the junior's work.

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Open-ended opportunity in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

8-5 schedule 10 days PTO accrued

Cons

This role is a heavy workload with insufficient resources or compensation. You will be mildly trained and “promoted” to a senior role only when there is vacancy (not when you’re ready). That can range from 3 months to a year depending on which previous senior was burnt out to the point of quitting. Management does not make an effort to create positive relationships with employees therefore it makes it difficult to want to work for them. They encourage to ask for help when you need it but when you ask, they will “follow up” with you and then hope you stop nagging. You are left to fend for yourself and train yourself amongst your peers rather than the supervisor you’re assigned because they barely know what they are doing themselves. The only benefit to this job is learning your basic office skills so that you can transition to another job. Several employees leave within a couple months and even on their first day. Avoid working here if you can, you will find a better entry level job elsewhere.

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