Seyfarth Shaw reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(337 total reviews)

Peter Miller

76% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Seyfarth Shaw has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 337 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Seyfarth Shaw employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).

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337 reviews
1.0
Mar 27, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits aren't bad and you get free breakfast on Fridays, plus causal dress.

Cons

Incredibly toxic, unhealthy work environment. The only metric used to measure performance is about of hours sitting and staring at your computer screen -- they do not care about efficiency at all. You'll get massacred for leaving at 6 even if you're doing twice the amount of work in a day than someone staying until 9 or 10. It is a weird, let's stay here as long as we can no matter what and have no life type culture. People legit brag about how often they eat dinner at their desk. Gross. Upper management is pretty awful. They don't care about paralegals, so they try to squeeze as much out of them as they can before the paralegal breaks and leaves. Your boss will regularly speak negatively about you (they do this to virtually everyone aside from a select few) to your coworkers, which creates a toxic, gossipy, high school like environment. Their feedback has been unhelpful or hostile (could qualify as bullying in my opinion) and is sometimes done in a public situation, where boss will call you out for a perceived mistake in front of several colleagues.

1.0
Dec 17, 2015

Attorney

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The checks did not bounce.

Cons

One of the worst experiences of my professional life. Toxic work environment. I could sit here detailing the reasons that the firm is poorly managed and the clients are ripped off in an unethical manner, but more to the point I have never dealt with such a loathsome group of sociopaths.

1.0
Feb 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will receive decent pay starting with the promise of room for growth in the firm especially for those aspiring to pursue law careers. The firm is very large and globally known successful.

Cons

They made it very clear that being an Administrative Assistant was a bottom of the barrel type of role through their interactions and behaviors. Office management and HR use the role as a scapegoat to hide individual deficiencies and flaws while finding someone to place blame on when things go wrong. There is no way to properly train someone for this role. Even those who feel they can handle the role generally leave within a few months or apply for another job in the firm as soon as they can to avoid having office management and HR as a direct boss. The women in the office management/HR positions are very toxic and working with them will both drain your energy and cause you to develop feelings of anxiety and overall anguish. Also, there are speculations of discriminatory behaviors at this office which should be a red flag.

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