Tyson & Mendes reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(145 total reviews)
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Robert Tyson

71% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Tyson & Mendes has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 145 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tyson & Mendes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.6 stars).

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145 reviews
1.0
Jul 18, 2019
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Pros

Lots of Happy Hour and social activities if you are part of the cool kids. Free parking. Hard working staff.

Cons

HR lady is an embarrassment. Has no business running an office. Picks favorites and treats others like chattel. Managing Partner comes into the office about 5 hours a week. Nobody to answer questions, give support, help or put out fires. Every day is a 3 alarm fire drill for no reason. Trend is to teach up friends/family, many with no education or experience. Favoritism rules. Cliques and nepotism run the place. Worse law firm experience ever. 18 staffers have quit in the last 3 months.

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Tyson & Mendes Response
6y
This branch of our firm is one of the fastest growing law offices in all of Los Angeles. It is a vibrant, exciting place to work with trial lawyers and legal staff who are on the cutting edge of their profession, handling the biggest tort cases in California. Many of our employees are friends and we do our best to treat our employees like family.
1.0
Aug 3, 2018

Buyer Beware

Recommend
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Pros

The only pro to this firm is you have the ability to work remotely.

Cons

I suspect that most of the positive reviews on here are written by management. I work in the San Diego office and this is the worse decision I could have ever made for my career. And I hear their LA office is worse. First, almost no one has worked in this office for more than a year. This firm is a lawyer mill. They recruit lawyers with promises of growth and opportunity yet they have no training and only their "favorites" experience any opportunity. Salaries and advancement are not based on achievement, there is no hr department and the management does not have a clue on how to manage. The firm touts being an industry leader, but I can assure you that their clients are being misled about their skill set. There is no structure and there are no incentives for bringing in business (not even if you negotiate). Also there is a really high turn over rate for attorneys, yet they have ads up every where offering thousands of dollars for attorneys to come work there. If you are thinking about working here do yourself a favor and stay away from this place. Trust me.

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Tyson & Mendes Response
6y
We are sorry to hear about your experience during your time with our firm. Your experience is unusual for our current 300+ employees as we have made great strides in our administrative structure, adding many employees at all levels of management and HR since your time with us. While hiring and retention is the number one challenge of any large law firm in a thriving economy, our retention rate for employees is well above average for our industry. One of the many reasons our attorneys and staff remain at our firm is because of the opportunities for advancement we provide, with some attorneys making partner in as little as two years. We also provide almost constant training, with an entire educational program devoted to improving our employees%E2%80%99 abilities and skill levels.
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