Pros
Lots of little employee perks like free beverages and often even free lunch with trainings or meetings. Overtime pay for working extended hours, which included dinner if there after 7 pm and for those in a major city, free personal transportation Home. Also vacation and sick time allotments were generous as well as holidays.
Cons
Office morale was depressing. Workloads were reassigned so often because of attorney insecurities and demeanors it was often difficult to build rapports. Ineffective employees were not held accountable and those with a great work ethic were overworked without additional compensation. Attorneys never planned their schedules efficiently and could care less about support staff getting home to see their own families (good thing we received OT). The attorney-to-Assistant ratio was often overwhelming where partners would literally fight for help.
