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Can’t say I’m familiar with this firm but I just checked its location and depending on where you live it’s a heck of a lot better than being downtown all the time. Also a good central spot between the Frisco firms and downtown Dallas firms. I’m of the mindset that no matter how content I am, I’m always willing to hear anyone out.
I worked at Fee Smith Sharp, but in the Houston office. It is primarily insurance defense and construction defect mixed in with some premises liability.
There are some great attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants there that really know what they’re doing. There are some interesting cases. The firm has grown a lot.
The firm is a bit unorganized. From what I’ve heard, the Houston and Austin offices are more relaxed than the Dallas office. For example, working from home may be fine in the Houston and Austin offices, but it’s greatly frowned upon in the Dallas office. There was high turnover in the Houston office for a couple of years, but I think it’s fine now.
Billing hours are high and with any insurance defense firm, getting your billing questioned happens quite often. After maybe one or two days of training, they will push 20+ cases on you and some of these files are not kept up to date. It’s left up to you to figure out what’s going on and what needs to get done.
Their bread and butter is insurance defense, municipal defense, some epli, and some coverage.
That means below market pay in short term and in long term (assuming you want a seat at the table).
Some solid and experienced partners who know their stuff and have been good to work with as co-defendants.
If you practice in those areas, perhaps worth a conversation. If not, would avoid.
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Have been across from the aisle from them several times.
Mid-tier ability. Most of their folks are pretty easy to get along with. If you want to do ID I would aim for a bigger shop like LB or WEMED.
All ID is pretty miserable. Might as well get paid a little better at one of the bigger shops.
FWIW, I worked at a nationwide shop other than the ones I mentioned and it sucked but I did make decent pay for the gig.
No. They use one or two recruiters and it’s pretty much a high attrition firm, they will make you an offer on the spot, for lawyers and paralegals - needing bodies.