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    Ropes & Gray Reviews

    Updated September 30, 2017
    144 reviews

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    Ropes & Gray Chairman R. Bradford (Brad) Malt
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    Pros

    • Great environment, excellent benefits, decent work/life balance and competitive with salary (in 10 reviews)

    • Interesting clientele, great benefits and salaries are competitive (in 9 reviews)

    Cons

    • very long hours and associate burn out is a problem (in 20 reviews)

    • Work / life balance can be difficult at times (in 8 reviews)

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    1. "Good Place for an Entry Level Paralegal"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Brilliant people, challenging but rewarding work environment. Great place to experience corporate law environment if you're considering law school.

      Cons

      Little training, paralegal management needs improvement, long hours sometimes (but typical for big law),

    2. "Legal Executive Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      Great benefits, people and café.

      Cons

      None that I'm aware of.

    3. "Expensive benefits"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      They offer health insurance to employees.

      Cons

      Over $700 a month out of pocket to cover a family. Only one health insurance offered.

    4. "Associate"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Boston, MA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Boston, MA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      great learning opportunities and great experts in law to learn from

      Cons

      very long hours and associate burn out is a problem

      Advice to Management

      continue working on associate work life balance

    5. "Staff positions largely smart, nice, people although less impressed by middle management."

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      Former Employee - IT Staff in Bellingham, MA
      Former Employee - IT Staff in Bellingham, MA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Ropes & Gray full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great benefits and nice environment in Boston office. Really nice, and smart peers and there is a budget for professional development.

      Cons

      Middle management more concerned with deflecting blame than solving problems which means the staff take the blame. Ridiculously elaborate review process.

      Advice to Management

      Middle managers more concerned with not looking bad than getting the job done. Hinders and slows efforts. Perhaps consider a different set of metrics for managers which includes reviews by those who report to them. Radical idea I know.

    6. "Investment Management Paralegal"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      Quality co-workers who care about each

      Cons

      Long hours at times but comes with the territory

    7. "Cash Specialist"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      Team, Location, Challenging, Networking, Benefits

      Cons

      Growth, Bench marks, Office space

    8. "Paralegal"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      Great benefits and attorneys are great to work for

      Cons

      Stressful at times, not much recognition.

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Associate Experience"

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      Former Employee - Associate in Boston, MA
      Former Employee - Associate in Boston, MA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Ropes & Gray full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great training opportunities, extremely smart colleagues who are generally very collegial.

      Reasonable billable hours requirements including good pro bono opportunities

      Cons

      Black box of information about management. Although there have been improvements, it's still an institution preoccupied with pedigree and double ivy degrees

      Advice to Management

      Continue the work that you are doing with the alumnae network and attorney support programs; consider ways to make the path to partnership a bit more transparent

    10. "Wonderful working place"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Ropes & Gray full-time

      Pros

      Great technology, great management, great work space and office.

      Cons

      Huge division between attorneys and staff

      Advice to Management

      Better technology!

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