Pros
Good work colleagues and that's it for the positives.
Cons
Where do I begin? The pay for the amount of stress you are put under is a joke, it is extremely poor! Management are incompetent who do not know what they are doing and have virtually no idea about the work we do and what we have to deal with in a day to day basis. There is no joined up thinking across the group of companies. Staff are not trained from day one and are just thrust in at the deep end where you are left to sink or swim. Bullying and intimidation is acceptable providing your face fits and you suck up to management like certain team leaders do and get away with murder. You are constantly bombarded with phone calls, it never hardly stops and yet you are expected to still progress the collassal and extremely excessive workload you have. A file count per fee earner of around 350 files! Getting back into pay, the other fee earners around you are paid a different rate to you (which either works in your favour, or against you) but that person will not be expected to do any more work than you I hasten to add. This is determined based on what your manager decides you should get! At what other organisation would that happen? The directors do not care about their staff it's as simple as that, they care about making money and as much of it as possible while you get shafted. Not once in the time I worked there did our own managing director engage with their staff and quite frankly they don't have a clue about what it is like on the ground and it's quite clear our mangers don't tell them, because they aren't bothered either! The firm is a sham of a law firm. They do sue their clients and take advantage of them just to make excessive amounts of money.