Longton Legal Reviews

Working here will be severely detrimental to your mental health as it takes great efforts to repress your feelings to tolerate the level of absurdity and humility here. This is the most toxic, abusive and unprofessional workplace I've ever worked and ever heard about. You won't have access to your computer, email, phone, necessary working software, access card for several weeks or even longer time. You will not even get a signed employment contract (and the contract itself is unfair and weird). People use abusive and offensive language frequently. Senior staffs genuinely do not want to teach you anything. They simply want to feel good by making others look stupid or taking the most of their power (they have nothing to offer as well). So-called training from the partner is a mental torture made up of 99.9% mansplaining but nothing about law. The unprofessionalism in work I observed here literally raised my ethical concerns (however, it is not to the extent that warrants the intervention of a supervising authority). The pay is also shockingly low (almost half of another offer I rejected). I made the stupid decision in the first place because I was largely misled by the advertisement and interview and had the impression that there might be greater career development here. And it turned out that even lawyers working here for 2-3 years only do basic repetitive administrative stuffs and have developed very limited lawyering skills. I do not deny that some staffs look nice (I checked Linkedin and found they all joined recently) and some teams might operate like a normal place but overall, this is a place you should definitely stay away from no matter you are looking for career development, meaning in work, work life balance, or decent pay. I fully agree with the ex-colleague that left comment on 19 April 2023 that the boss think he is managing a prison. But I also want to add that junior Chinese staffs might be prisoners that have the more inhumane experience here because we have less bargaining power and our sufferings might be invisible to English speakers. I also feel very embarrassed as a Chinese-speaking person each time those senior Chinese staffs act in a rude and unprofessional way and that's why I am unsociable in the office

It's a very weird law firm like no other in Australia. Chinese lawyers and staff are very weird and anti social. 99% of clients don't speak English. Everyone is speaking Chinese with each other all the times. it's a Chinese law firm but in Australia. Colleagues don't even approach and interact. This can be called the squid game firm. They have big problem retaining employees. They either sack them or they leave. one in one out so regularly. The boss thinks he is managing a prison. He walks around and in and out lawyers offices. Lawyers are not allowed to close the door of their office, boss rocks in anytime he wants as if he is a cop with a search warrant. You will be very uncomfortable here. Don't work here no matter what they pay you. Don't lose your current job for this. they claim they are changing into a multicultural firm but nope it still same old Chinese mentality dominating here. It's bad never seen something like this.