Not a great place to work - Business Services Kennedys Employee Review

1.0
4 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay (although then a con as you are priced out of the market if you want to leave)

Cons

Business Services directors are too busy trying to undermine each other that the goal rarely gets achieved in the time it should or on budget. Support staff are treated unfairly to fee staff such as certain ‘firm wide’ policies not accessible to support staff - wfh. In most support teams you only get promoted if you are a ‘yes’ person and so disregard core values by trampling over others (probably learnt from your director). Managing partner has no idea what goes on in support teams and how staff are treated as directors talk a good talk. Overtime rarely paid even though in contract (unless you are in finance and you can make double your salary this way).

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5.0
19 Jun 2025
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Pros

- Amazing office manager - Amazing colleagues who help and stay long late when needed - Attorneys are great to with for and are very helpful

Cons

- Bathrooms, especially those in female restroom, could use more soap. Otherwise, amazing place to work and no cons.

4.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Your experience in Defense group is highly dependent on who your managing partner is. Good work-life balance. Manageable case load. Fellow associates generally nice and willing to help. Secondment program allows you to take a week long work trip to another Kennedys office anywhere in the globe and learn about foreign legal system. Depending on your team, you can handle some really interesting cases that even go outside of ID realm.

Cons

Support staff sucks. Management doesn't want to invest in support staff. Pay is not the best. NY firm is a bit siloed. Its still ID work so it can get miserable at times. Sometimes firm culture can be a bit catty - lots of people talking behind your back and you gotta watch what you say to certain folks.

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