Advice to law firm management:
Adapt to the new age before your historic firm becomes history.

Pros:
Look to the Future

Cons:
This upper management is stuck in its old school ways. As they head out for retirement, or bring in young attorneys like myself, they really don't like to hear input for new innovative ways to go about their projects. They just expected me to know how they want things run as they did decades ago.

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Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
This firm needs to consider offering benefits to their employees. It may be expensive, but more employees will want to stay if they have the proper insurance.

Pros:
I've been at this firm for 4 years now and have to say it is one of the best places to work. The manager is super friendly and approachable and treats their employees as if they were family. People get along great with one another and there is hardly any conflict.

Cons:
My only gripe with this firm is that there is no health insurance offered. I know it can be expensive for business owners to pay employees to have insurance, but not having health insurance is a big setback, especially when other firms do this in the area.

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Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
I would like to see management put in place a few younger attorneys so that there is an appropriate balance between change and unwillingness to change. Right now the firm feels like it's stuck in its way's which is a real shame.

Pros:
I learned a lot while working at this firm and formed some good relationships with other coworkers. I also thought the work was interesting and never dull.

Cons:
Some of the senior level attorney's and management members are a bit stubborn and seemed unwilling to change their ways. This led to difficulties in more than quite a few instances.

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Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
Improvements can be made to enhance diversity in the company. There was no diversity and as the only minority I already felt uncomfortable and was given comments such as “ do you have your high school diploma?” basically doubting my ability from the start. But I kept my head high and ignored this and never made negitive comments back.

Pros:
the paid holidays

Cons:
Management gives very poor training and expects you know things, I have never had experience in this field and needed to learn a lot and was never given proper training and they had no standard operating procedures only checklist that no goes over with you. People got upset if i asked questions . They only gave me three months to learn wills, adoptions, and guardianships and probates. When I was let go with no write up or formal warnings, I was told “ we are not a training facility, and you either sink or swim”.

Partners to Avoid and Why:
All Yakima Partners, all stuck in there old ways

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None

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Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
Improvements can be made to enhance diversity in the company. There was no diversity and as the only minority I already felt uncomfortable and was given comments such as “ do you have your high school diploma?” basically doubting my ability from the start. But I kept my head high and ignored this and never made negitive comments back.

Pros:
the paid holidays

Cons:
Management gives very poor training and expects you know things, I have never had experience in this field and needed to learn a lot and was never given proper training and they had no standard operating procedures only checklist that no goes over with you. People got upset if i asked questions . They only gave me three months to learn wills, adoptions, and guardianships and probates. When I was let go with no write up or formal warnings, I was told “ we are not a training facility, and you either sink or swim”.

Partners to Avoid and Why:
All Yakima Partners, all stuck in there old ways

Favorite Things About this Firm:
None

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Compensation & Benefits:

Work/Life Balance:

Senior Management:

Culture & Values:

Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
Improvements can be made to enhance diversity in the company. There was no diversity and as the only minority I already felt uncomfortable and was given comments such as “ do you have your high school diploma?” basically doubting my ability from the start. But I kept my head high and ignored this and never made negitive comments back.

Pros:
the paid holidays

Cons:
Management gives very poor training and expects you know things, I have never had experience in this field and needed to learn a lot and was never given proper training and they had no standard operating procedures only checklist that no goes over with you. People got upset if i asked questions . They only gave me three months to learn wills, adoptions, and guardianships and probates. When I was let go with no write up or formal warnings, I was told “ we are not a training facility, and you either sink or swim”.

Partners to Avoid and Why:
All Yakima Partners, all stuck in there old ways

Favorite Things About this Firm:
None

Career Opportunities:

Compensation & Benefits:

Work/Life Balance:

Senior Management:

Culture & Values:

Length of Employment:
10+ years

Advice to law firm management:
Improvements can be made to enhance diversity in the company. There was no diversity and as the only minority I already felt uncomfortable and was given comments such as “ do you have your high school diploma?” basically doubting my ability from the start. But I kept my head high and ignored this and never made negitive comments back.

Pros:
the paid holidays

Cons:
Management gives very poor training and expects you know things, I have never had experience in this field and needed to learn a lot and was never given proper training and they had no standard operating procedures only checklist that no goes over with you. People got upset if i asked questions . They only gave me three months to learn wills, adoptions, and guardianships and probates. When I was let go with no write up or formal warnings, I was told “ we are not a training facility, and you either sink or swim”.

Partners to Avoid and Why:
All Yakima Partners, all stuck in there old ways

Favorite Things About this Firm:
None

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Compensation & Benefits:

Work/Life Balance:

Senior Management:

Culture & Values:

Length of Employment:
10+ years