The Probate Pro Reviews

Management is clueless. The have no idea how to manage people. They micromanage everything and make you feel like you're less of a person every time they talk to you. All management cares about is money and whether or not your meeting your hours. You better hope you don't get sick or need a vacation because you'll just have to make those hours up when you get back. Even in a global pandemic, when people are losing their jobs, management is making the attorneys call their clients and demand them to pay their bills in full and making them write nonsense "update" letters to clients just so they can increase their billable hours. It's criminal! Salary is terrible. bonuses are terrible. There is no opportunity for growth or advancement with this firm. Working here, you become a cog in a machine and as soon as they break you, your replaced before you can even clean out your desk. The employees voice their concerns and management doesn't care. They don't listen. I do not know one person outside of management that actually likes working here and I know of several people who already have one foot out the door. This firm will not be around much longer bendy all the good people are leaving. Quitting this job was the best decision I ever made and they are about to lose a lot more of their employees if they don't change things. If you seek any kind of work/life balance or you have even a small desire to find joy and fulfillment in the work that your doing, do not, I repeat, DO NOT apply for a job here.

Having a good work/life balance does tend to translate to lower than average pay. While we did get the Coolest Places to Work for 2018, one of the reasons listed was paid time for volunteer work, however, I have seen no evidence that is actually something offered. The firm is growing very rapidly and I don’t always get the impression that this growth has been thought out and planned for enough. The clients can be very difficult and unpleasant to deal with. I know this is true anywhere, but we seem to have a higher percentage. While the job title is paralegal, it is really more like legal secretary. Answering phones takes up a lot of the day, and not in a talking to and helping clients way, but in a taking messages and transferring calls kind of way. There’s also a lot of scheduling appointments and sending out mail. If you are hoping to be doing legal research, writing motions, etc., you will be very disappointed. There is an unspoken pecking order where attorneys can come in later and/or leave earlier while support staff has to punch a clock, take lunch at a specified time, and make up time missed. It can be frustrating to watch an attorney leave at 4:30 because they don’t have anything else to do that day while we have to run out the clock even if we have finished all of our work. Law clerks also rank above paralegals, with opportunities to go to court, individual time learning from attorneys, and meatier assignments.