DLA Piper reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,041 total reviews)
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Charles Severs and Frank Ryan

71% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

DLA Piper has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,041 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DLA Piper employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).

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1.0
Feb 25, 2023

Challenging

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Pros

Salary and benefits are good.

Cons

Very long hours, toxic hierarchy. Top heavy, layered upper management

2.0
May 24, 2022

Questionable, at best

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Pros

Worldwide footprint and big law experience are good on the resume, Cravath-scale pay.

Cons

Everything - questionable ethics of leaders, inept and “yes-man” HR department, focus on making money more than doing what’s right, horrible communication and feedback for associates and staff, passive-aggressive approach to associate management and reviews, partners also in leadership positions don’t pay enough attention to their practices, partners don’t manage their poorly behaved clients and associates suffer because of it, junior and mid level associates have only mediocre and inept “pool” assistants who provide terrible service for the most part, elitist and gossipy culture where those with a conscience or ethics feel like the odd man out, “unlimited” time off policy for attorneys is a fallacy and rarely does anyone actually feel free to take a vacation (let alone be able to not work on the rare occasion they do take vacation). Shall I go on?

5.0
Jul 24, 2018

Legal Secretary

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Pros

Great people, great work and a feeling of home. All the attorneys for the most part are really great to work with. The majority of the partners were friendly and down to earth people. I supported 2 senior partners and 1 associate. When I was there, there were numerous events that went on throughout the year such as monthly wellness seminars, firm picnics and holiday parties. There is always room to improve your IT skills with computer training webinars offered every month by the highly competent Help Desk Training Team. DLA has great benefits such as medical, dental, vision, 401k, life, yearly merit bonus and even a turkey or champagne at Thanksgiving! DLA was awesome when I was there! I'm sure it's still 5 star quality!

Cons

They had great HR when I was there, and then they didn't. I left at the turn of new HR which brought morale down very low. Since I left, I heard there was another turn over in HR and it is once again top notch.

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