Cadwalader Wickersham Reviews

Management lies and makes everything (I mean it!) a personal issue encouraging many colleagues to talk badly about others, creating a hostile environment. Imagine what a daycare would be like without professional adult supervision where a bunch of entitled brats without self control were in charge......(pause here for you to envision this)....... that’s exactly how it seems. Bad management has a domino effect. Wearing a suit does not make a manager. These bad managers hire friends and family with limited ability to think, who naturally feel entitled as they have the manager’s backup to continue subpar performance hindering the few skilled workers’ progress. For a firm with just about 500 people in NY, to see so many smart individuals come and go over time on a weekly basis is disheartening. They are misled, misinformed and miserable so they go elsewhere.

Being available for some overtime does not mean being expected to be at your partner's beck and call at any hour of the day. Work/life balance was terrible. Office politics were equally terrible. In the end, the trust I had given the firm was shattered.