Poor pay and little respect - Legal Assistant/Paralegal Birketts Employee Review

• there is little respect for anyone who isn’t a Partner. • there are no career development prospects. They make it very hard to progress and they don’t offer any support. If you do want to progress, you have to do it at your own expense and they don’t give you the work in order for you to gain experience. • the salary is abysmal. They often employ regional staff to do the work for the London office so they don’t have to pay London wages. The salary is below the average. • Too many good staff members are being stretched whilst deadwood is allowed to do very little and nothing is said. • a deep rooted problem within at Partner level of bullying and gaslighting.