Pros
The marketing/business development and communications teams are genuinely great to work for/with. The benefits were also decent.
Cons
I want to start off by saying that my friends and family were genuinely embarrassed that I worked here because of the firm's horrible anti-union and anti-worker reputation. Both of which it's earned and very much deserves. Jackson Lewis also clearly has a hierarchy with attorneys at the top and business support personnel at the bottom, or maybe middle with legal secretaries at the very bottom. In a way, I understand this as I never directly brought money to the firm, but at the same time I was constantly expected to bend over backwards for lawyers who refused to do even the bare minimum to make my job easier, which was incredibly frustrating. It felt like I was there to serve the attorneys, which may be by design, but is also increasingly frustrating, For an AmLaw 200 firm that is apparently seeing profit growth year over year, it's astonishing how little support I was given to do my job. It constantly felt like I never had the proper tools or systems I needed to complete what was asked of me. I can't say I hated every moment of working at Jackson Lewis. As I mentioned above, the business support staff were genuinely great to work with, but if you're going to sellout your fellow workers to work for an anti-union law firm, you should at least be compensated well for it. You'd be better served to go work for a competitor firm because you'll certainly be better compensated.
