Jones Day Reviews

Pros

Good working environment. Good training. Friendly colleagues. Spacious and modern office. Centrally located office with good public transport links and access to public libraries.

Cons

Limited or little advancement opportunities and does not provide subsidised child care services for pre school children. No health club memberships.

Advice to Senior Management

The working environment is generally very friendly and congenial with lots of office functions organised to cater all sorts of different interests. Keep up the good work!

Pros

Salary is generally biglaw; prestige in that they represent the biggest clients doing very high-value work; hours better than other NY biglaw shops;

Cons

Disrespectful working environment; typical biglaw firm personalities (ungrateful partners, uptight senior associates, etc.); little responsibility/client development for associates; hours still biglaw.

Pros

Interesting, high level projects from the get-go; partner contact; flexible hours

Cons

The good brings with it the bad - impossibly long hours

Pros

good time off, nice benefits, nice offices

Cons

pay not high, hard to get ahead

Pros

People are friendly and the work load typically is not too bad. Great vacations time - starting at 3 weeks and going to 4 weeks after 10 years. Great downtown locations.

Cons

IT management seems to stay in place with little chance to be promoted. The little fringe benefits are nearly gone - taken away due to the bad economy (though the firm had only a modest decline in revenue) and not returned when the economy heated back up. IT is very siloed with groups not knowing with other groups do.

Advice to Senior Management

Reducing and removing the fringe benefits makes it just another job. In IT, the groups are so siloed it's difficult to get needed information. Managing Partners (and Partners-in-Charge) should not be attorneys; they should hire business people to do business functions.

Pros

Besides a steady paycheck, I cannot think of any other reasons at the moment.

Cons

Advancement and opportunities for growth are very limited.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to appreciate the employees that work hard and learn to reward your staff.

Pros

The workplace has prestige and recognition. It is always great on your resume. Also, you get a great sense lot of what BIG LAW practice is.

Cons

As always mentioned, the hours are a bit hectic during certain periods of time. However, they have great ways to assist those in overtime.

Advice to Senior Management

The management needs to focus more on every individual of the company besides attorneys and partners. Everything else seems satisfactory.

Pros

good entry-level position, interesting work if you're considering going to law school, standard workweek is 37.5 hours with ability to get overtime

Cons

you may feel like, "I went to college to make copies?," pay increases are minimal (average 3%) for support staff from year to year

Advice to Senior Management

Mine the project assistants for potential future attorneys for the firm. Don't be afraid to promote from within (when I was hired, I was told this would never happen. After I left, two colleagues were promoted)

Pros

People are like family.
Very good salary & benefits package.

Cons

Sr. Management (Dallas office) the last 2 years not good.

Advice to Senior Management

Dallas office: "Act" professional even if you aren't. Communicate to staff. Don't bulldoze your way in and reek havoc. Ease people into change.

Pros

Compensation package is the most attractive in the region
Reputation and prestige
Opens doors to a variety of professional opportunities

Cons

Office culture is drab and cold
WAY too conservative
The law firm is overly impressed with itself
Very poor track record with diversity
ZERO transparency from leadership
ZERO work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management

More transparency with regard to direction of the firm. Improve diversity. Give more responsibility to young associates. Treat staff better