Equilaw Reviews

3.4

65% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)
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Claire Barker

64% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Equilaw has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equilaw 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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31 reviews
1.0
13 May 2022
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Pros

They pay you to leave them good reviews :) On google and on glassdoor

Cons

Every honest review they cover up, they pay members of staff to make glassdoor accounts to leave them good reviews, see below how they covered up the honest reviews. They do not have any team building activities thats a lie the company benefits are not good either. Its a toxic law firm. They break SRA rules and hold client money for longer than 24 hours. The managers think they are better than the rest. If u care about ur mental health then stay away

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Equilaw Response
4y
Thank you for your review. To clarify, we do not pay our staff to leave reviews on Glassdoor or Google. As you are aware, anyone can post a review at any time to leave their honest feedback, including ex-employees. We do not and cannot control this. Regarding your comment about breaking SRA rules, we are heavily regulated by the SRA, and we follow strict SRA protocols. If you are a current employee, we strongly advise you to speak to and report any issues to the Risk and Compliance Director, Chief Financial Officer, or Managing Director straight away so they can investigate this. Like many organisations, we admit that we have struggled to hold regular team-building events in the past couple of years due to the pandemic, however, I’m pleased to say our Christmas party at Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham in December 2021 was fantastic and very much welcomed after such a difficult period. If you are a current employee, you will know that just this month at The Greenway Hotel and Spa in Cheltenham, our team-building event for the whole firm was held. It was a great success and lots of fun for the staff. Our teams took part in a Segway experience, lazer clay shooting, archery, and sheep herding followed by a lovely BBQ. We continue to invite staff to our monthly pizza lunches and our charity and social committee are already planning our next events as we speak, one at the end of Summer and a Christmas event which the staff are very much looking forward to. Team Managers also have their own budgets and are busy planning special events for their hard-working teams throughout the year. Regarding your comment about company benefits, if you are a current employee, we would encourage you to book a benefits overview session with a member of HR and we will be more than happy to run through our benefits with you. In summary, our flexible benefits package includes 32 days of annual leave which increases with long service, a paid sabbatical, birthday day off, health care cash plan, life assurance, study support programme, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, an employee of the month and year awards as well as a wellbeing hub and employee assistance programme, to name a few. Lastly, if you are a current employee, you will know that we held several focus groups and director lead lunches for our staff very recently where we invited you to give your feedback. We will be doing this again later this year, as they were very well received. In the meantime, we invite you to speak to any member of the senior management team who will listen to your concerns and aim to put them right. You can also use our staff suggestion scheme to put forward any suggestions for improvement which will be discussed by our staff suggestion committee. Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review.
1.0
2 Apr 2022
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Pros

There is none whatsoever and I couldn’t be more genuine or serious about that.

Cons

RACISM, Management, Staff, Bully Culture, Set-Up to Fail Culture, Team Members Spread Lies and Rumours about You, Bad Atmosphere, Office Environment, Training.

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Equilaw Response
4y
Thank you for your review. We are very surprised to receive this feedback, and disappointed that you did not share your concerns with anyone whilst you were employed by the Company. We are a professional firm, and we have an open-door policy for staff to share their concerns. We follow a robust process when it comes to any grievance which is brought to our attention and we have a zero-tolerance approach to the allegations you have made, which we find most concerning. We will complete a comprehensive investigation and we would welcome any further information from you to support the claims you have made that will help us with our investigation. In the meantime, I am sorry your employment with us was not successful but as we discussed with you, we wish you well for the future.
1.0
23 May 2022

These reviews say it all

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Pros

There are a lot of nice people there

Cons

I think the reading of these reviews sums it up perfectly. A case assistant/case manager leaves a less than favourable review which is then quickly followed by management leaving reviews to bury the bad ones rather than addressing the problems raised and taking accountability. There are some lovely people there who work really hard but the workloads are unmanageable, complete lack of training which just leads to angry clients which is demoralising. Management only need to listen to all the MANY exit interviews they have had over the last two years where there has essentially been a mass exodus of staff and they would be fully aware of the issues but it always seems to fall on deaf ears. The top only care about money, they cut your bonus saying they can’t afford it because of the pandemic but can happily take one themselves which would be well over the amount of all the staffs bonus put together. I would say there is a toxic culture there where people are pulled into meetings, management whispering in the kitchen so I understand why there are reviews to that effect. They may write that there is great benefits and resources etc but that wasn’t my experience, a couple of slices of pizza every now and then does not equal good work culture. They also are lacking qualified staff so unsure how they can operate as a law firm.

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Equilaw Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, and I am sorry you feel this way, especially after your time with us. As previously stated, this is a public forum, we are unable to 'bury bad reviews' including from disgruntled ex-employees - anyone can leave a review. Your statements about bonuses and lack of qualified staff are factually incorrect (please do take the time to visit our website to see our employees and their credentials). You are however correct, we have lots of positive, hard working and fantastic people working here at Equilaw. You are also correct that during the pandemic, like many organisations, we struggled with social events, however, I am pleased to report we have a newly established social and charity committee and we are looking forward to our rounders match, (together with Thomas Legal), our Equilaw fun day, flight club team social and many more. Thanks again for your review, if you would like to discuss this further, then please do get in touch.
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