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Totally office and practice group dependent. It's pretty common for folks to crap on Lewis Brisbois for being ID, and of course it's not the same level of deals/work as you would get at a peer firm like Cravath or Kirkland, but if you aren't in the running for those caliber firms anyway, it's not a bad gig.
Very good work/life balance and the pay is not as bad as folks make it out to be. 200's very doable if you can bill, and there are a decent number of folks making 300's. Of course if you can build a book, those numbers go up even more.
Generally left alone. They allow folks to work remotely, sometimes even in other states from their home office. Imagine an in-house lifestyle, but at a firm and that's Lewis Brisbois.
Absolute garbage law firm.
I started off in insurance defense and now am in big law. Do what you gotta do and ignore the negativity here
Don’t do this to yourself. That is a last resort firm.
It’s an ID mill. ID is bottom of the barrel work. Big ID mills will work you for high hours with garbage pay. Why even go to law school to be so overworked and underpaid?
Not sure you want to work for that firm, they are bottom of the barrel in the legal sector. Acceptable if you currently have no offers.
Salary isn’t worth the hours imo.
Garbage firm.
Mostly no. You will probably get hovering if you’re new, but if you prove trustworthy you’ll be left alone to handle your own cases over time. I have two 1st years and have a lot of interaction with them but they are still in the “don’t know what they don’t know” stage.
And yes- it is an “ID mill”- and yes, if you get a better offer elsewhere, take it. But we don’t just serve discovery and settle. Some cases we get have opportunities for the ‘bigger things’ in litigations- summary judgment motions, trials, appeals. etc. Depending on your group you’ll see private clients as well. And honestly, as someone else said on here, the ID cases can be better client wise as you are typcally not concerned about collections, cash flow and costs for typical stuff with ID.
I wasn't micromanaged and there was a ton of work. I billed a lot. I latereled out ASAP though when it became clear my supervising partner was not going to help me develop business. Two years later I'm billing nearly 400h less for more than double the pay.
The laughing react to my post pretty sums up LBBS! Lots of (low quality) work, you're underpaid, and rainmakers won't develop you professionally. In my specialty it was hard to lateral because other firms knew we weren't handling high caliber work.
I used to. At my office there was no micromanaging. Only partners can communicate directly with insurance adjusters and clients for the most part, tho. So you’ll have to draft the correspondence, send to partner, then they send it to adjusters. Associates get promoted a lot to partner at around year 7.
If you can’t talk to Adjustors, all you are is a discovery dog.
Most partners, anywhere, would rather not micromanage for billable hour concerns unless they do not like you and are making a case for why they should get rid of you. I have worked at Cravath, Weil, Pillsbury, O’Melveny & Myers, and Sidley. Steer clear of Sidley.
I’d be curious to hear about Akron or Cleveland.
does anyone know what it’s like to work within the accounting department as a senior billing specialist, in what billing platform are they using??
My group definitely not. That’s one reason I still work here. Other groups I think are different.