terrible management and drama within the firm - Associate Attorney Wilson Elser Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay with 6 month salary increase 1950 billables with 50 hours of CLE counting towards it. Free gym access and access to building amenities.

Cons

Interpersonal relationships and drama. Terrible, rude, and idiotic management. All of this was so horrendous that I quit.

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Good coworkers and supervisors. Billable work environments tend to be the same in terms of monotony, so it helps to have a good team.

Cons

Billable hours aren't the most fun thing in the world. Huge caseload.

3.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, pay is okay. Partners are reasonable and nice.

Cons

Firm is misogynistic. They either drove someone to quit/fired really good talent and one of the only attorneys that was sweet to the staff after they took the side of male colleague in their interpersonal issue. Watched this person get bullied and firm did nothing. A lot of exclusive groups and mean girl behavior in chicago office it is really a shame

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