Wachtell Lipton Reviews
Updated Nov 9, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Long hours, but there's no way to avoid that when you have significant responsibility and work for sophisticated clients." (in 5 reviews)
- "So those who are saying that salary is good obviously were very junior at their previous firms." (in 3 reviews)
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Amazing experience and exposure, people are very nice, culture is great and you are genuinely cared for
Cons
Can be crazy hours, while overtime pay is there and brings up the total compensation to about 80-90k, that's only because you're working a lot. Almost as much as corporate lawyers at less fancy firms. Base Pay should be more in my opinion. Although they have a lot of policies in place to help paralegals get the breaks they need.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good people and hard working
Cons
Hard to make change and point blame if a mistake is done.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Decent pay but incredibly long hours
Cons
Very long hours and unpredictable schedule
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
good firm to work for
Cons
no cons to report as of now
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great M&A firm to learn
Cons
Around the clock work schedule
- Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Overall no turnover. Stable and great work life balance. Amazing benefits
Cons
There should be more Room for growth for support staff
- Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Salaries, benefits, and perks (free food especially) are great.
Cons
Mega-stressful pressure-cooker environment, even by top law firm standards. Some attorneys are great, but a number can be quite abusive. You need a thick skin and good stress management tools.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
A lot of training and great staff.
Cons
Salary is low and some Executives are not kind people.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Best minds in the legal field, prominent and meaningful matters, provides strong understanding of what it takes to work at a top tier law firm
Cons
24/7 responsiveness, title of "paralegal" serves little purpose to anywhere but law or business school, your time is not your own even outside the office
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great experience, fun environment, great teammates
Cons
none to great of a place!
Wachtell Lipton Reviews FAQs
Wachtell Lipton has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 49 reviews left anonymously by employees. 63% of employees would recommend working at Wachtell Lipton to a friend and 64% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 9% over the last 12 months.
63% of Wachtell Lipton employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Wachtell Lipton 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Wachtell Lipton to be culture, career development, benefits and the cons to be work life balance, compensation.
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