room to improve - Anonymous employee Kennedys Employee Review

5.0
Oct 1, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Overall Kennedys is a good firm to work for. People are friendly, they are trying to create a good environment/culture. Maybe everyone is too busy and sometime under resourced, both fee earners and business services support. Attitude from Partners aren't the best when they are under the pumped but understandable in a law firm environment.

Cons

Partners make decision on a number of issues which can be a problem as they are not an expert in management and not letting go decision making power to leaders. Processes take a long time due to layers of approvals and sometimes are very manual, I can see this is improving also understand the limited resources available. Not a 5 stars law firm but I can see potentials if Partners change their behavior or style.

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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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