Working at SM - Paralegal Simpson Millar Employee Review

3.0
11 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Colleagues are great. The work is rewarding. Carrying out legal aid work means you can assist clients who wouldn’t otherwise be able to pay for the service.

Cons

Pay is very low. Upper management is very disorganised and do not communicate well. Managers can be hit or miss and paralegals are often overworked.

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Simpson Millar Response
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Hi - thanks very much for taking the time to add your review to this site, your opinion is very valuable to us. We're really glad to hear that you feel the work you do is rewarding and you enjoying working with your colleagues. We constantly review our salaries against the market and where necessary adjust to ensure that they are competitive. There will also be a new bonus scheme launching for 2024 which will give everyone in the firm the opportunity to earn bonus. We appreciate your thoughts on the communication across the firm and we'll definitely ensure that if there's areas where we can improve, we'll try to do that. Thanks again for your much valued input. If there's anything that you think we can immediately change then we'd welcome your suggestion to either your line manager or a member of the HR team.

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Cons

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