Great place to work depending on your team! - Legal Secretary Kennedys Employee Review

4.0
21 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Some lovely people here, great work life balance for secretaries but dependent on your team, flexible/supportive dependent on your team, free breakfast and rewarded with nice gifts from the firm such as chocolates and prosecco and £100 voucher. Great work from home equipment grant and support.

Cons

London office awful and miserable place with no canteen/lunch area so have to eat at desk (new office later this year hopefully better), salary could be better and stupid ticketing system brought in to monitor secretarial staff. Kennedys not sure if they want secretaries or not it seems.

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5.0
19 Jun 2025
Recommend
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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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