Pros
They offer a decent amount of PTO and they have good benefits.
Cons
This firm is extremely TOXIC. The main office in Richmond is a snake pit full of shady employees who love to make others’ lives’ miserable. There is constant micromanagement and office gossip/politics. The HR department is a JOKE. There is no confidentiality at all and it’s very unprofessional. Upper management doesn’t care about you at all. The only pros to this job were the benefits and PTO. Paralegals are very underpaid and not given any recognition at all. There are no incentives here at all. Attorneys will throw paralegals under the bus and get all the glory for any successes. They handled COVID well with working from home but coming back to the office was a disaster. They forced everyone to get vaccinated and if you didn’t get vaccinated you would have to work from home while taking a pay cut. Then with all the money cut from unvaccinated employees wages…they planned on pooling all the money together to give as a bonus to all the vaccinated employees. They will pile the work on you without giving any raises and there is no room for growth here. There are many employees here that have been here for 20+ years who basically can do whatever they want like bossing everyone around and being rude to new employees with no consequences at all. I worked for this company for almost 4 years. After putting in my notice, I was asked what could be done to make me stay but they could not match what my other job was offering me. They fired me 3 days before my last day and I was not able to cash out any of my PTO that I had saved up which was close to 100 hours and added up to about $1500. Be very careful working here because you will constantly have to be watching your back and no one can be trusted. We are all replaceable to them, no matter how loyal you are or how many years you worked for them.
