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      AkinMears Reviews

      2.4

      37% would recommend to a friend

      (26 total reviews)

      42% positive business outlook

      AkinMears has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The AkinMears employee rating is 36% below average for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).

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      26 reviews
      1.0
      16 Oct 2015

      No Future Here

      Management team
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The employees at AkinMears are wonderful people. They are supportive, kind, and have created a work family. Facilities are nice with great parking and 24-hour security. Nice luncheons.

      Cons

      Employees are micro-managed and constantly "watched over". Managing attorneys demand "daily task emails" in which employees are required to list every work task they completed in a daily email. It is not a learning environment...one mistake and your tasks are reassigned to someone else. The managing attorneys are unprofessional and create a hostile work environment. Don't let the "free" lunches fool you...the costs of drinks, snacks, luncheons are divided equally among all employees and included on your compensation sheet at the end of the year.

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      AkinMears Response
      7y
      Thank you for your comments and sorry for the delay in response. We are new to Glassdoor. Our law firm is a national leader in our area and committed to excellent legal services through compassion, dedication, honesty and accountability. In 2015, our predecessor firm had a client call office that was separate from our legal offices. Persons in the client call office, such as this commentator, would not handle the legal matters in the main office. We have since closed the client call office and, to date, all of the firm has been centralized to the legal offices. Sorry you had negative feelings about our law offices. As a law firm, we have ethical restrictions on what the attorneys and employees can or cannot do or say. In addition to the attorneys in the firm, we retain two legal ethicists (one a legal ethics professor) to ensure all activities are sound. We would not want any of our employees to do something not legally approved. Some level of legal management is required and, for our clients' sake, we would always want to be informed of sub-par performance. Thank you again for your comments.
      1.0
      29 Aug 2018

      You're WASTING your time and precious work career at AkinMears

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      None whatsoever for this firm.

      Cons

      Feel free to research on your own, and you'll find several reviews from past employees who not only agree, but confirm all the other poor reviews of this 'firm'. Including a major lawsuit against AkinMears, which is available online and published by Forbes magazine, for failure to pay a former employee, which they had to settle out of court. This pseudo 'law' firm uses their employees to their benefit by making unreasonable requests, capturing the ideas of their best and brightest and finding unsubstantiated reasons to cut ties shortly thereafter. The entire time I was there, the scatter brained management provided ZERO direction and were ENTIRELY clueless of what they wanted from you as an employee, nor able to articulate it - ironic given they are 'attorney's. They are a revolving door employer, with an incredibly high turnover rate - most employees not lasting more than a year or so. Their only long term employees are family and co-owners, which are probably the ONLY good reviews you'll find on this firm. I'm confident you cannot locate a single case where a client or genuine employee, NOT family member, had a pleasant long term experience working at Akin Mears.

      2.0
      17 Oct 2015

      Challenging

      Legal assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Nice environment, good management team, not COO. Directors has good ideas and trys hard, but always stopped by stupid stuff. Akinmears a great company!

      Cons

      new COO unprofessional, controlling, big headed. Does not know the business. Noone likes him. Not a good fit, saw him being unprofessional, scared to tell. I might lose my job .

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      AkinMears Response
      7y
      Thank you for your comments and sorry for the delay in response. We are new to Glassdoor. We apologize about the unprofessional COO. We hired him and quickly realized he was not a good fit with the professionals, values and culture of the company and then released him as soon as possible. We are sorry that you feel the attorneys were rude to you. Sometimes employees do not like when women professionals manage them. We are sorry that you were offended. Please note that at our company all opinions matter, and you were always encouraged to speak up if you saw unprofessional acts or any actions violative of firm culture or values. We would expect nothing less! Thanks for the compliments and we always strive for happy clients & employees and good ideas!
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