Knight Law Group Reviews

Be prepared to be bullied by your so-called peers or some management. If you manage to escape that and are around long enough, you will inevitably be the subject to some sort of gossip. The bullying and gossiping were “addressed” within our department, but it didn’t resolve anything, and no repercussions came to those who participated in either. That meeting fell on deaf ears because that specific group of staff are keeping the gossip train running. Staff do not feel safe reporting problems because their grievances becomes public knowledge and or the bullies retaliate. That means there is no anonymity, so staff have stopped coming forward. HR seriously lacks professionalism. If you didn’t know who they were, you wouldn’t even think they were HR at all. They also don’t even attempt hide their dislike or nepotism towards certain staff, which is very evident by their interactions. Please stop acting like you are our co-worker. You’re HR, you should act like it. Depending on your role in the office and if you have been around long enough, you are more than likely orbiting close enough to the Sun, founding partner, Mr. Mikhov. You will get to bask in the lovely light in his office and receive his “generosity” in the form of fringe benefits. But remember, just like Icarus, if you fly too close to the sun, you too will get burned. That means you are fair game to your name being called over the paging system, random projects with vague or little to no instructions, and may become a verbal punching bag for whenever he wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. You will also be yelled at by the other partners when they decide to insert themselves into projects. If you’re exempt from their temper tantrums, there is another Hell that is on the 25th floor. Seeing or hearing female staff members cry in the restroom sadly isn’t unusual, and it’s no secret as to who causes this. On either floor, you won’t receive an apology from anyone that yelled at you; they’ll move on and pretend like it didn’t happen. Food is used as a reward. This can be a Pro or Con, depending on how you want to look at this. Yes, we receive breakfast every Monday and have birthday luncheons every first Friday of the month. It has been said many times that this is how they show their “gratitude” and “appreciation” for all our hard work. In between the scheduled breakfasts and lunches, some PA will give away leftovers from some team’s working lunch meeting. Or even better, when Mr. Mikhov has a party or some event over the weekend, he will have his one of his many PA’s bring in his leftover food and desserts to the office. However, by accepting someone’s leftovers or eating two-day old cake means you consent to being yelled at, belittled (i.e., being told you’re an idiot, incompetent or a moron), working long hours or involuntarily coming into the office over the weekend for last-minute projects with ridiculous deadlines. The Disneyland, Universal Studios and other random trips have ceased and are now just fond memories of better times. From time to time, you’ll hear staff reminiscing about these trips or asking amongst themselves when and where the next one will be. It probably won’t happen any time soon because $$$. We don’t pay our vendors on time. We don’t pay our experts on time. Our experts will hold their dates of availability ransom until we pay some or all of their invoices, and even then, we’re reduced to begging for a date. We can’t even reimburse own attorneys their expenses in a reasonable amount of time. Security cameras have recently been installed in the interior hallways. While video monitoring isn’t illegal, nobody knows whether or not the cameras also record audio which IS illegal. California is a two-party consent state. For the sake of transparency, it might be a good idea to inform the staff why all of a sudden, we have Big Brother in the office. Be prepared to be a player (victim) in the never-ending blame game. Some managers and partners are quick to jump down your throat or throw you under the bus when there is a problem. You could have proof of why you’re not in the wrong, but you “should have known” or “tried to do…” You. Will. Not. Win. Just accept the fact that you will be blamed and probably be written up for something you knew absolutely nothing about or had no control over. Good luck ever seeing any of them take responsibility for anything. Speaking of write ups, the write up cup runneth over. The office is inconsistent in what actions results in a write up, and how many write ups an employee receives before further action is taken. Write ups also seem to happen oddly enough around a staff member’s annual review. It’s how they justify an employee’s raise, if they were lucky to receive one at all. Write ups are also used as a means to make consistently problematic employees uncomfortable and hopefully force them to quit rather than actually fire them. However, this plan is backfiring because the good people who actually have strong work ethics and care about their jobs are the ones leaving. Vacations? What are those?! Avoid scheduling any appointments during the week and pray you don’t ever get sick because once you’ve burned through your PTO, forget trying to take a paid vacation for a long time. If you’re within your first year or two, you will not accrue a single full day of PTO in your standard 160 hours a month. You can’t accrue PTO if you work overtime, which sucks for those that consistently work 10-20 hours of overtime a week. You will just have to live vicariously through the partners as they take their 2-3 week-long vacations every quarter. I wish I could say the comments in the negative reviews are exaggerated, but they’re not. I’ve been around long enough, and have heard and seen more than I care to. Upper management and the partners fail to lead by example. It’s incredibly disheartening to see the people at this office who actually work hard have the life drained from them. You can see how miserable people are here. I can’t remember the last time the office went a full month or two without someone quitting. Upper management and the partners like to brag about how this office is different. How we’re “better” than other law firms and that you won’t find another other office is like here. I’m pretty sure this isn’t what they meant.