Hire Counsel Reviews

Pros

Hire Counsel continues to expand its expertise in the managed review and specialized attorney sector. This is a company with strong leadership, a competitive compensation package with improved benefits. The company has a great culture which values and rewards hard work, team work and creativity.

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work.

Pros

Project leads and managers are very helpful and patient.
Great rotating cast of coworkers.
Most of the time instructions are clear.
Higher pay than other players in town.
Jodie and Michael are very responsive.

Advice to Management

Provide more feedback on individual performance.

Pros

If you are experienced in doc review they pay as well as most.

Advice to Management

It would be best not to give people a promise of a minimum work term if you cannot hold to it. For those new to the work it would be very beneficial to have a basic guideline for the process. It would also be useful if the information you do provide is accurate and error free.

Pros

Work is easy, pay is market rate, no pressure

Pros

The project was interesting and the hiring law firm personnel were professional.

Advice to Management

I'd really check to see who you are hiring. I know that I am a good document reviewer because I've received bonuses in the past and know that I'm good with the quantity and quality of the documents I review. However, there are many slackers that are brought in and it's a disincentive to those who really are doing the work. Also, there are some document reviewers who are notorious for causing problems with other document reviewers. I think you may want to have other doc reviewers fill out a short survey when they leave asking if there are people they'd want to work with in the future and those they don't. I was told by one of my co-workers that the person who gave me a hard time has a reputation for causing problems. I was advised not to engage with her, although she sat next to me and was constantly talking about me to the room while I sat there. One of my co-workers said I shouldn't have to work in a hostile environment. That prompted me to talk to HR. I changed locations and it was much better. But, it still doesn't make you feel good to work at a place when you are doing a lot of the document review and this person is wasting time and no one is doing anything about it.

Pros

great working environment and people to work well with

Pros

It took years to get my first assignment, so consider yourself lucky when you get called....even if the project doesn't start immediately. Once you are called, being on time, a team-player and giving an honest days work will get you called again, over and over. The projects can be short or long term.

I worked at other document review companies in L.A. and none compare to Hire Counsel. Bernadette Savage and Sharon Secor are hard-working professionals in a tough, competitive and stressful industry who are, nevertheless, a pleasure to work with....just do your job and don't try to cheat the company. I never felt harassed or mistreated...which seems rare in the legal industries these days. I only left because I moved away and accepted a position closer to my new home.

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work!

Pros

Benefits
Commission
That's about it. It paid the bills.

Pros

New Management Team, private company that can be quick and nimble to solving client challenges, change, renewed focus on all things that bring client and employee satisfaction.

Advice to Management

Keep up the focus. Lots of great and positive things happening. You can feel it. No one is ever perfect, but that doesn't mean you stop trying.

Pros

Good training, relative to industry.