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From prior experience:
Comp is slightly below market but respectable for firm size. Hours requirements are also slightly below market (1800-1900), but the busier groups (M&A/Corp, Real Estate, Finance, Funds) definitely expect substantially more time billed (think 2000+ at a minimum). Culture is overall pretty good and they have pretty friendly and approachable partners (at least on the Corporate side), but the expectations for responsiveness and time dedicated to work are up there with the most infamous BigLaw firms.
Don’t expect to have any free time/work-life balance when things are busy. Also, and probably the one true negative mark against them (they’re not necessarily unique in this, just they are more prone to it than average), they will quickly move to cut juniors (under the guise of “underperformance” or “failure to meet expectations”) if there is a even a wiff of a slowdown. This is in part because of the expectations of the firm (blindly high hours in certain groups), and in part because partners are willing to pick up work (which theoretically is great but really means juniors can risk getting cut because they’re deemed not needed).
Firm is also highly dependent on its corporate/real estate practice groups, but the upper echelon of the firm is a majority lit, and they don’t really understand the corporate practice, despite believing they do (which is exceedingly common at midsize full service firms that have lit partners in primary leadership roles).