🚨 Goodwin layoffs 🚨

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At some point do clients get tired of the revolving door of associates and partners who lack any familiarity with their matters? Like why use them to exit a platform when nobody from the initial acquisition is even there?

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Yea but it’s a matter of degree

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I hate this place.

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They literally have no mid levels and they’re firing home trained rising mid levels is wild

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They are hiring more midlevels and offering pretty big sign on bonuses

How are the Goodwin mods letting all these posts stay up so long. Gotta find a new pr strategy

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This new PR strategy seems questionable…

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Why would any decent associate want to work at this firm, and why would any in-house counsel familiar with their tactics ever hire them?

Quality of work doesn’t increase with associate churn- it decreases. It’s like a game of telephone where info and nuances are lost as the information is passed.

I’m a millennial and I support the growing movement for calling these firms out. If your business model depends on abusing new attorneys and then damaging their careers - you are acting unethically and should collapse.

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Cadwalader does this a lot

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Confirmed. Second and third years affected so fare this past month.

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LS too, rumor is 10-15% of that group because their realization rates aren’t good

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Imagine being a stub year and walking into this dumpster fire.

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Hi all –

As a firm, we have never engaged in commenting about or discussing – in forums like Reddit and Fishbowl – how we run our business and what we may or may not be doing. At the same time, we have seen a recent uptick in posts that are blatantly untrue, including posts about “continued layoffs” at the firm. And we want to address these rumors specifically and unequivocally.

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I mean I work elsewhere, but if you’re going to ask a question you better know the answer. You just tossed-up an easy denial.

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Dumpster fire

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As a reminder, like all law firms, as a matter of litigation risk mitigation, laid off associates are going to have to sign confidentiality agreements and one sided non disparagement agreements as a condition to getting severance and website time. They would not dare to reveal themselves and rebut the firm’s dubious position.

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Hey Konstantin, thanks for reporting to Glassdoor. Good luck stopping anyone from ranking you this year.

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We made it on ATL boys.

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You can always come to Mintz. We basically hiring anyone with a JD at this point.

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If you search Mintz under Big Law bowl, you will see tons of comments about Mintz from other former/current Mintz folks. To be frank, it’s not that bad to me but I’m in one of those “clubs” people complained about in those comments. But again, like what I said, I’m only recommending people got laid off from Goodwin to apply Mintz if they need to get a quick job and getting paid while looking for another job…

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I need more Goodwin tea plz

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Cadwaladers and Goodwin and firms like this need to be destroyed.

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This is a complete fucking lie lol. Because I personally know three people that this happened to in the last six months at Cwt

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