Berry Appleman & Leiden Reviews

Pros

I love my co-workers; the company provides lots of nice benefits, including a gym, game rooms, and happy hours; I feel like my boss trusts that I know what I'm doing and let's me do my job without watching over my shoulder. If I make a mistake I don't worry that I will be yelled at, I just take responsibility and work to resolve the issue.

Advice to Management

Continue listening to the needs and wants of employees. Empower the attorneys to be good leaders. Promote employees that work hard and deserve to be recognized, even if it's "off-cyle".

Pros

Growth potential for hard workers. Super fun work environment and staff, catered lunches and other perks. My attorney was best and I loved working with her.

Advice to Management

Balance workload.. people leave because they have way too much work for one person.

Pros

Friendly work environment. Also, they have great benefits. The attorneys are friendly and knowledgable and will help you out when they have time.

Pros

Liked the team I was on and the work I did.

Pros

Everyone here makes you feel as if you belong. You work hard but there are a lot of perks. This is not your typical law office. I'm fairly new and I see great opportunity for growth in my career and learning. Before I joined the training was revamped and it is great. I'm learning how to draft multiple case types and look forward to moving up in the firm. BAL gives you a chance in the immigration world that is hard to come by in other companies. I was afraid I wouldn't be hired because I didn't have experience, but that isn't an issue. I'm learning and growing. the office is growing really fast and I can see that my career path will, as well.

Advice to Management

Management is very engaged with the employees. They are always available to mentor and provide you the tools to succeed.

Pros

Great effort to be a fun place to work, people are great, effort to make things better.

Advice to Management

Take serious measures to ensure work /life balance. Mentally preparing people and telling them that their families have to understand they just won't see you for several months is not healthy. Consider floaters so cases don't suffer when someone has to leave for greater than 2 days.

Pros

Casual dress code
Very little micromanaging

Advice to Management

My advice is to maintain better case management. The cases are constantly being switched between case workers with very little communication and background information regarding the case. Many times cases are not being touched for weeks and the client and/or employee complain because of the delays. There also needs to be better client specific training. Especially with picky clients that have several protocols. The initial BAL training is informative regarding the company and an “intro to immigration” however there was no break down or explanation of what is specifically expected from the client once we start our assigned roles. It is not the responsibility for others in the same role to train newer employees especially when 95% of them already have heavy caseloads.

Pros

BAL is a very wholesome place to work. You’ll be at the forefront of immigration service and in the midts of some of the greatest experts in the field. BAL offers great career opportunities across the different departments and is relatively more relaxed that other top immigration law firms. You’ll always feel challenged to learn more and handle new tasks, which contributes to one’s overall growth. You’ll work with some amazing and very knowledgeable people, and you’ll have hands on experience with immigration matters for top Fortune 500 companies, resolving all sorts of issues. It’s a fast paced environment, with lots of development opportunities.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you’re doing, and keep looking for smart solutions to work load issues and flexibility for employees.

Pros

good people to work with

Pros

good work if you like immigration