Poor working conditions - Anonymous employee Wilson Elser Employee Review

2.0
Nov 19, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-coworkers are friendly for the most part -nice to have own office space

Cons

Your experience will depend entirely on which partner you are assigned to. Most partners are difficult to work with. My partner only cared about billable hours. He often unfairly punished the entire group for the mistakes of one. The level of talent and dedication is very low.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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