Vantaggi
-Excellent co-workers. Paralegals are bright and Attorneys are brilliant. - Nice office environment.
Svantaggi
- No training. - I began drafting immediately and learned on the go. Eventually I found success in the role but it took a lot of harshly worded critiques on my first drafts for at least the first 3 months. - Consistently expected to work overtime outside of the busy season and had difficulty saying no as the rest of the office until 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. every night. - Work load was so high paralegals would regularly alter the databases and billing projections to show that they had accomplished work that had not yet been completed to avoid being reprimanded. - Was consistently drowning in work due to a huge gap between management and employees. Eventually I was having recurring stress dreams every night and became physically ill. I went to multiple doctors appointments and after $1,000 in medical bills the doctors found nothing to be conclusively wrong. One month after I left Fragomen my symptoms disappeared and have not come back since.