Everything except the pay - Paralegal Iowa Legal Aid Employee Review

4.0
10 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are extensive (and you only pay for 1.25% of salary for a single person) – vision, dental, matching 401k. Four weeks paid vacation leave starting out, plus sick pay, personal days, federal holidays. Unionized.

Cons

Low pay, vicariously traumatic due to nature of civil poverty law.

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5.0
1 Apr 2026
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Pros

A solid organization with cool coworkers and good culture.

Cons

Typical Legal Aid organization, with more work than people to handle it.

4.0
19 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good office culture, flexible, good benefits

Cons

Emotionally draining clients, limited capacity, always expected to take more

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