Great place to gain experience - Associate Attorney Wilson Elser Employee Review

4.0
May 8, 2018
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Pros

Lots of associates and partners to gain insight and legal advice. Free CLEs and free pizza (sometimes). My supervision partner is usually helpful and I gained a lot of litigation experience. Firm name recognition for lateral purposes.

Cons

2100 hours, which is impossible unless you pad your hours or work on the weekends. I found 2100 hours to be extremely difficult in light of the low salary. Also, they have been cutting down their support staff, so now associates also have to be "secretaries" as well.

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Good coworkers and supervisors. Billable work environments tend to be the same in terms of monotony, so it helps to have a good team.

Cons

Billable hours aren't the most fun thing in the world. Huge caseload.

3.0
Jul 18, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, pay is okay. Partners are reasonable and nice.

Cons

Firm is misogynistic. They either drove someone to quit/fired really good talent and one of the only attorneys that was sweet to the staff after they took the side of male colleague in their interpersonal issue. Watched this person get bullied and firm did nothing. A lot of exclusive groups and mean girl behavior in chicago office it is really a shame

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