So far so good - Anonymous employee Wilson Elser Employee Review

4.0
Nov 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Coming to work each day, I feel valued and appreciated by most. - Nice colleagues who are good at what they do - There is a significant focus on doing the right thing for the client. - While I always work much more than a 40 hour work week, I have flexibility allowing work-life balance when needed. - The firm is working hard to advance technologies in multiple areas. - Generous vacation policy

Cons

As a value-focused organization, back end systems are not ideal, making many tasks harder than they should be. Working at a partnership makes the road to approvals less clear than in many places with a more significant hierarchy. Not everyone is tech savvy enough to appreciate many of the new technology advances - change will take some time.

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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
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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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