What’s the biggest bait-and-switch you’ve experienced or heard of for lateral hires?

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"We care about diversity. Diversity matters. We have women initiatives and minority programs."

"Let's do 23 and me or ancestry on our lawyers (90% white men) to add more diversity to our sheets instead of trying to recruit and retain women and minorities" @ the diversity committee meeting.

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I understand. Someone has to be willing to come forward to fix these things though.

“We care about our associates’ mental health” in the same meeting “we are considering raising the required billable hours from 2000 to 2200”

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“Lifestyle firm” “Hours requirement only 1700”… no bonus until 1900+, no decent bonus til 2000+, def not lifestyle firm.

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Yes. Exactly my situation. And...the work is not as good so I'm basically in a sweat shop to get 2000

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Secondary/tertiary market that “did things differently” than the major market I was coming from, more lifestyle, attorneys have time to be with their families here, etc.

Nope. More of a sweatshop than my last firm, and it wasn’t even close.

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We care about mental health and your well-being during Covid.

Fast forward...everyone gets Covid. We don’t offer Covid leave policy. You need to still work and we won’t adjust for hours.

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Nice!

My firm promised a good chance for partnership, then refused to count any experience from prior firms towards the associate skills checklist. Awesome for someone lateraling 6 years out.

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Happened to me as well. I got 2 years credit for 7 years exp. I have to wait 4 more years for partnership.

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