King & Spalding Reviews

Pros

Project Assistants (PAs) job duties vary widely based on location and the team you're on. This is a great in-between job for recent graduates considering law school or a legal career. Work can sometimes be very boring, but a minute later you'll be rushed to finish or complete project by end of day or week. You will get a good feel for biglaw/corporate defense and its a career path for you. Usually you work 40/hr weeks and will have the occasional late night or 1/2 day on the weekend.

Cons

This is very team/practice area dependent, but make sure when you interview to know who you're working under. Demands and stress can be relatively high at times. Paralegal management can be disorganized as well -- don't always know what's coming down the pipeline. Also, very little place for internal growth besides possibly being promoted to paralegal. This position is best for those who want to go to law school.

Pros

Tons of exposure to different areas and projects / Working with smart people that were trusted in their field

Cons

Way too much work put on admin staff without expectation of additional hires. The firm grew revenues, profits and the equity partnership, but that never translated to additional resources for functional departments. It only translated to additional work.

Pros

Management is easy to work with and understanding. Profit sharing.

Cons

Benefits not so good. Not taking care of their staff (backbone).

Pros

People/Culture, flexible schedule, get to work on exciting and topical cases, good place to start your legal career and get to learn how a large law firm operates.

Cons

Extremely difficult to move from the discovery practice group into a substantive practice group at King & Spalding. Likely you will be doing only discovery you're entire time at K&S if hired as a project attorney. Terrible benefits for the Project Attorneys.