“About as balanced as a dead elephant on a skateboard.”
Goodwin Procter has the worst work/life balance in UK law, according to the huge RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2023 survey.
"Double whammy, US law firm hours but shit work, it’s like a low value high volume sweat shop of shitty deals that make us such an embarrassment," said a junior lawyer, "we win plenty of awards for private equity deal count, although embarrassingly we don’t even appear on the chart for aggregate deal values - because the deals are for values closer to the average Waitrose shop cost of 37.20".
A partner fumed: "The quality of work is shocking, and the quantity of bad work is not good for the life balance, so shit all around."
"The only thing worse than bad hours is bad hours doing crap work," said a junior lawyer. Another said they "wouldn't mind the hours as much" had they been give "decent work."
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"Chargeable hours are high and so are the non-chargeables," said a senior solicitor. "It’s the latter which grinds you down, dealing with WIP enquiries, bills, client data, training etc you end up doing lots of overtime for no pay. It used to be a steady 9-5 but it no longer is, it’s a slog."
One lawyer opined that they have the "highest targets in the industry." While another said: "Get 10% over chargeables and you’ll get salary rise, it doesn’t matter about case outcome".
A paralegal summed up their experience: "A life? Ha ha ha ha ha ha."
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