Dinsmore & Shohl Employee Reviews about "attorneys"

Pros

Good pay, amazing people to work with, flexible, great environment. Office administrator super nice, easy to talk to and understanding. Attorneys are great to work with and very patient. Supporting staff is all about team work and helping each other out.

Cons

No 401K matching; Pay for parking; employee benefits not so great.

Pros

High salary and generous vacation time

Cons

High stress with a very heavy workload. Work gets loaded onto the hardworking staff members while other staff who underperform fill their day doing personal things, texting, shopping online and even using the firm computers to update their resume and save job applications for other employers. Management knows but does nothing. They seem to believe that having one person carry 85% of the load while another carries 15% is somehow an equitable division. They just don't seem to care. There is a very high staff turnover rate and an increasing number of attorneys have left. Health insurance plan is not very good.

Pros

Good people have been there a long time - not sure why they stayed to be honest. Firm founded a hundred years ago and they still run it the same way.

Cons

HR is a travesty - they hire promote from within their cliques to cover up their inability and unwillingness to do anything different. They REALLY don’t want your suggestions and you pay the price for offering any because they are so insecure and passive aggressive. They think being “hands-off” is a good thing?? Attorneys and managers are MIA when it comes to answering questions. Benefits are the worst in the industry & the benefits department is too busy to answer a question, they are rude and suck up to the senior attorneys. They talk a good game about being a big firm with resources, but if you are outside of the Cincinnati office, you are on the dark side of the moon.

Pros

-Great people -Lots of responsibility for young attorneys -Low hours requirement for a law firm

Cons

-Lateral attorneys get very little support -Review process not very transparent -Low compensation compared to peer firms

Pros

Interesting cases and a couple attorneys of the human type, as well as a nice office. Some of the attorneys are very, very good. Nothing else good to say.

Cons

The firm expects your blood and your life. They do not want to pay overtime yet refused to modify workloads. A certain few attorneys and a similar number of support staff call all the shots at the local office. There is no parity. It's the "preferred" group who run the place.

Pros

Hard-working, experienced attorneys. Good training for new attorneys. Good salary.

Cons

Not willing to work out flexible work arrangements. Expect attorneys to be available around the clock. Terrible bonus structure.

Pros

Plenty of work Mostly friendly staff and some attorneys

Cons

Growing too fast for its own good Huge separation of attorneys and non-attorney staff Raises are based on what other firms do, not on employee performance - low raises Insurance used to be good, but no longer and cost is out of reach for families Employee work ratio is not even No flex time (except for the favored few)