Pros
There are some genuinely decent people scattered throughout the firm, mostly junior associates and support staff who are trying to survive the same chaos everyone else is dealing with. Day-to-day interactions are usually polite on the surface, but the culture underneath feels tense, transactional, and exhausting.
Cons
The firm spends an incredible amount of energy trying to convince people it cares about employees while doing almost nothing to improve the actual experience of working there. Leadership pushes constant “culture,” “wellness,” and “community” messaging, but in practice the expectation is that work comes before everything else in your life, all the time. The hours are relentless, responsiveness is treated like a personality trait, and there is an unspoken expectation that your evenings, weekends, and personal plans are always secondary. It’s the kind of place where people brag about exhaustion because everyone is competing to prove commitment. Associates disappear constantly, morale is low, and burnout feels built into the business model. There’s also a huge disconnect between leadership and reality. Management talks endlessly about flexibility and collaboration while simultaneously pressuring people to be physically present for optics and available at all hours. The environment feels less like a professional workplace and more like an image-management exercise designed to recruit law students. By the time I left, almost everyone I started with had either quit or was actively trying to leave. That alone tells you everything you need to know.