Seyfarth Shaw reviews

-Prepare to have NO personal life. Those that hold mid to upper-level management roles have no lives outside of work, and they often project their insecurities onto their younger staff. These people are often divorced, single 40/50 yr olds, or terrible partners, husband/wives, and parents. There is this masochistic belief amongst the Immigration Department that you should stay glued to your computer screen in the office until 6, 7, 8 pm every night, regardless of your work load. They tout flexible work benefits and PTO, but then expect you to never leave. -This group loves to gossip, and talk behind each other's backs. -Though holiday parties/ceremonial events are frequent they are the most awkward displays of human interaction on the planet. The staff (many from senior management) often drinks heavily to quell their dislike of each other, and to mask the pain of having little life experiences outside of the office. -Though they have recently made the effort to bring in more non-vanilla people, the younger staff largely comes from two private NE colleges. Whether that feeds into a larger discussion of systemic, institutional racism, I will let you decide. -People are polite, but unfriendly and fake

I felt that this firm was dysfunctional on a lot of levels. HR was pretty non-existent. There was a specific female partner who was known not just to be difficult but downright abusive to others in her practice group. It was well-known throughout the firm but everyone preferred to turn a blind eye to it, presumably because she was bringing in a certain amount of money. It had been going on for several years before I decided that I had taken enough -- following several before me. It was pretty clear to me that nothing was going to change even with promises to the contrary. Although I enjoyed the work, it was a miserable place to come and work everyday.