Vantaggi
Every Thursday you got a free breakfast/lunch from the cafe downstairs. Unfortunately, that is the only pro I can say
Svantaggi
I just want to start off by saying on the first day, I already had a "gut" feeling that this job was going to be a disaster. -Very disorganized firm. -You work for 5 lawyers, who are all demanding and all want their work they requested right away. -They do not have minimum resources most firms do. For example, you have to do all the accounting and billing and photocopying. This is fine but when you work for five lawyers who all want their work done right away, photocopying 500 pages and then binding 5 copies takes time. -It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, or if you are a good person, they don't care about you. All you are is business to them. -They get SO mad when something goes wrong. Even the very small minimal things. Like how a senior lawyer's email address should go first before a junior lawyer's email address on an email. Who looks or cares for this type of stuff? -They spend way too much time on the small things that don't matter. -They bill clients for the most ridiculous things, which if you don't care about moral and ethics then this shouldn't bother you. For example, they billed one for "text messaging a client" and "Listen to voicemail message". -The senior partner expects you to have common sense. Which is fine, but his definition of common sense is to read his mind all the time. -The senior partner made me grab him water and coffee ALL THE TIME. Even when he could more than 99.9% of the time just get up walk 50m and do it himself. -You have to co-ordinate your lunches with the other assistant. Which is fine BUT if the other assistant is off on lunch, (I am not even kidding I got yelled at for this) you cannot leave your desk. Even if it's going to do work, pee, grab water etc. NO JOKE. -Never got a review, never even got a offer letter. - You were expected to make ridiculous time lines, and to make matters worse, the lawyer would call you a hundred times to ask if the task was complete yet. He wanted a task done that a normal person not working for 4 other lawyers would take about a day or two to complete. He wanted this done in a couple hours. -No learning curve allowed. Was doing the bills for 6 months (never did a lot of billing before). I thought I was doing them to firm's standards but was told 5 months into it that it was not to firms standards. Which is fine, but a good leader would tell you how to do something right off the bat, you can't just expect people to know things without telling them the way you want them done. I wish I knew I was doing them wrong from the beginning because I could have learned and improved. - There are way more Cons but this is enough I hope to save you from hating your life. -They made me DESPISE my job and reconsider my career. I did not want to go into work. -AVOID THIS FIRM.