Associate - Associate Freshfields Employee Review

- Very long and unpredictable working hours with little to no upper-level support and holidays regularly cancelled - A number of partners (particularly from the older generation) were known to be extremely misogynistic, with a boys' club culture and heavy drinking/visits to strip clubs with clients not uncommon (although technically not officially encouraged). - HR had a policy of covering up sexual harassment by certain senior partners and associates, which, based on the accounts of a number of women I worked with, had created a particularly toxic environment for junior associates within certain practice groups. .