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
5.0
Apr 23, 2018

Paralegal

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Pros

Great group of people from partners to mail room.

Cons

Some sore thumb employees, like anywhere else. I wasn't to happy with HR.

1.0
Mar 27, 2018
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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.

5.0
Mar 24, 2018
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Pros

I worked at Seyfarth for about four years as a paralegal in the Business Immigration practice. It was a wonderful experience where I learned a great deal and was able to begin my career in the professional world. People The people are one of the best aspects of the job. It is a tight knit group of people who are not only smart and hard working, but fun to be around. They support one another and have great team dynamic. Even after leaving to go to grad school, some of my closest friends are those I worked with at Seyfarth! In particular, my boss at Seyfarth was the most amazing teacher and mentor who taught me so much. She supported my growth and development and pushed me to expand my comfort zone and take on greater responsibilities. Related to the great people, I found Seyfarth to have a very supportive environment both inside and outside of the immigration group. Opportunity There are great opportunities for growth and development at the firm. Not only training in technologies, processes, and content area, but the ability to continually expand your knowledge and experience basis with different types of Immigration work. They help you to build a solid foundation in the “bread and butter” of Immigration, but also allow you to explore a variety of types of work. The variety of clients and support teams allow for continual learning opportunities.

Cons

The work can be demanding around the busy season. Thankfully, everyone is in it together, and knowing you have a team working right alongside with you makes it not so bad!

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