Pros
You will work with a lot of talented attorneys and support staff. Unfortunately, due to how unethical this firm functions, you will lose a lot, if not all of that talent.
Cons
This firm is extremely unethical, unprofessional and if you want to get to the top, you have to play dirty. Think of Morgan and Morgan. Because that’s what they’re aiming to be if they haven’t so already. Partners get promoted NOT due to merit. Attorneys getting the most money they can from clients while not even discussing the offers to them. Some get intimidating/hostile towards support staff but get swept under the rug completely due to the fact that they can bring in good money. By being able to do that, it justifies them treating their workers and peers horribly. You can be friendly with them, but if they find something that they don’t like about you, they WILL find a way to fire you. And if you speak up on it, you will get retaliated. Staff will not provide constructive feedback to your face. No, but you will hear their complaints from the partners and office manager but no sort of feedback from the person who made the complaint themselves. Non-attorneys are settling cases, with one in particular due to their direct connections with providers’ offices because the firm will thoughtlessly send letters of protections to them because they send their clients there by default. Yet, that person is being subtlety advertised as an attorney on their site. Attorneys/partners will pressure clients to get injections, or even surgery from the firm’s preferred medical provider because it adds more value to a case and brings more money for BOTH parties. Some of the medical providers’ offices don’t function very ethically themselves either. One was under fire for functioning under an expired license, the other for over billing their clients. Yet, the firm continues still work with them. Office manager has no HR experience yet has been leading all three offices. She is friendly with the problematic support staff and will let them slide with almost anything you can think of, which has included hostility and almost violence in the workplace. Yet, for the ones her and upper management doesn’t favor, they will go through great lengths to find any mistake to micromanage you on until you break and leave the firm. The Clark location is another mess of its own. They will spew racist and political ideals that have nothing to do with these cases and be proud of it. What does any of that have to do with the work itself??? Where is the professionalism there??? Where’s HR in that case? But, the paralegals really do run the firm. The 75% that are there are extremely knowledgeable and very nice. However, intake is a mess. I can’t blame the workers at all (at least in that regard), they’re just so backed up. They open files without having all the information. They don’t follow up on it either because of how many cases they need to open on a daily basis. Up to a year can go by, and there’s still missing documents that they never followed up on. Health insurance cards, medical records, police reports, no claim open... This is due to the high influx of new clients that the partner keeps making them take. As great as the paralegals can be, they can act extremely catty and sometimes disrespectful to other support staff. But it’s understandable given how catty the attorneys are themselves and are proud of it. It’s just the culture of the firm. They brag and thrive under working unethically.