Global company with growing pains, expanding into the Australian market - Anonymous employee Kennedys Employee Review

2.0
Mar 25, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good entrance into the job-secure insurance / insurance law market Opportunities to learn from talented lawyers Central CBD location Opportunities for growth in a small team / small(er) company (at least its APAC branch) Opportunities to work on international files and/or work for overseas offices and/or introductions to large insurer clients

Cons

Expansion into Australian market has been full of growing pains Understaffed - growing pains given the disconnect between the insurance work available and lack of skilled practitioners Technology is below the industry standard, and at times, somewhat laughable

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5.0
Jun 19, 2025
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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
May 27, 2026
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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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