Wachtell Lipton Reviews

Pros

Working with the best and brightest in the industry, covering front page-WSJ transactions, provides insight into whether corporate law is a good career path for you

Cons

On call 24/7 (but easy to set boundaries, within reason), very fast-paced (also a pro)

Pros

Great benefit package. Very organized company.

Cons

May stay in same role for a while.

Pros

Salary and overtime, experience, exposure.

Cons

Hours, Hours, Hours, Hours, Hours.

Pros

5 week PTO... Various drinks in the pantry... OT availability.

Cons

Most people are nasty, hot head and disrespectful. Micromanagement environment with 0 concern to its staff. outdated training. Call center where you have to log EVERYTHING from breaks, to lunch, meetings etc.

Advice to Management

Taje care of your people and reduce turnover.

Pros

Fully stocked break rooms. Plenty of overtime, if you wanted it. Firm paid health benefits, no out of pocket

Cons

There were some bad seeds when I was there, which eventually led to my leaving. Workplace bullying and social promotion of incompetent people. Turnover in the IT department. A lot of the good people left.

Advice to Management

Management was the problem.

Pros

They work you hard but they pay you for it. You are a member of their family.

Cons

Sometimes the managing attorneys can be a bit rude to staff.

Advice to Management

remember that you used to be us.

Pros

very nice offices, great location, great benefits, strong internal and external training available, good interdepartmental communication, generally, you will deal with polite and respectful people, however, some partners can be quite disrespectful and condescending no matter what.

Cons

Thr admin is treated as a lower cast, OT has become unavailable in the past 5 years, no recognition of cost of life and no salary increase have been received in the past 10 years (I don't count a 2% increase at one time), no possibility of growth within the firm for admin (or very rare and not always based on merrits), generally low salaries for NY prices/cost of living.

Advice to Management

if you want to cut down the number of people supporting lawers, but you want to have great secretaries and great, competent staff that gets the job done and do it well, you have to pay them about 100K or you will continue to lose good people. this is NY. 65-70K can barely cover the basic needs (rent, utilities, food, clothing) in NY, let alone vacations, or if you have a child(ren).

Pros

Good administrative support system in place. Enjoyed the work environment and co-workers.

Cons

As a member of the support staff, felt there was no growth potential so I left after 5 years. I worked for two attorneys but after I left, I understand that the secretarial staff had to work for large groups of attorneys (sometimes as many as 10). Some of my former co-workers complained that they couldn't pay sufficient attention to every attorney they were assigned to.

Advice to Management

Pay attention and try to keep long-term employees engaged in the work.