At a low level, you're underpaid and overworked, and your team makes all the difference. - Recensione dipendente - Assistant Paralegal presso Fragomen

3,0
13 set 2014
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

If you're lucky enough to get on a good team, your job can be somewhat interesting and your co-workers can be awesome. Otherwise, some teams seem to randomly fire people every month or so, and it seems like the attorneys are scapegoating their underlings. They put out free fruit from Whole Foods on Mondays, and free bagels on Fridays. Every 3rd Thursday they have a party with snacks and beer/wine. Their insurance benefits are good.

Svantaggi

You're overworked and overwhelmed with minutia that has to be done impeccably the first time, or else you get yelled at or fired for not noticing a tiny detail on a case where you received virtually no training. It's easy to be scapegoated, as the attorneys are under a lot of pressure to produce, and if they didn't take the time to explain something to you, it's easy for them to push that under the rug and claim you're just incompetent. While I appreciate the free food every so often, I'd rather get paid more. The building isn't great after they moved back to FiDi. The midtown building was better, and more conveniently located for the vast majority of the employees.

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5,0
26 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good teams and support group that help each other.

Svantaggi

Lots of corporate interference in every day work sometimes good sometimes bad.

2,0
25 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Decent overtime pay. I also had a decent training/onboarding experience, but this was not the norm.

Svantaggi

Exploitative, 80+ hour work weeks, 2am messages from attorneys, burn-out model for paralegals and associates (scoop them up after BA or JD and overwork them until they quit), misrepresent case load during interview by 50% of total, low ceiling for non-attorney career advancement. Have an exit plan.

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