Pros
The attorneys and support staff are, with a few exceptions, very nice to work with. This is the only reason for the second star.
Cons
High turnover rate. The management, which includes managing partners, have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They're bleeding talent because of it. They want associates to believe that the firm is at the top of the heap and competitive with big law, when clearly it is not. Their compensation doesn't even match the Cravath scale and their benefits don't make up for it. After 3rd year they also go Black Box with their compensation model. They want you to believe that you can choose which office to work in but, again, this is a lie. Nearly everyone is pushed into the NYC office at some point even if they prefer DC or Boston. They work people into the ground and then drop them with no logical explanation, which is probably why so many people are making a lateral move to other firms. The management believes they're all hotshots, yet they consistently lie to associates about the firm's financial health to try and retain people. Just look at all of the recent people on LinkedIn who've left the firm, both attorneys and support staff. This is unusual for a place this size. Maybe it's because they started forcing their workers back into the office in NYC during summer 2020 when COVID was still a huge threat to everyone's safety.. and one of their own partners died from it! Overall, the management here is disrespectful, dishonest, and way out of their lane. I highly recommend that others avoid taking a job here. This advice applies to everyone but I feel like it's important to say that you should especially pay attention if you're a woman - even after a scathing diversity report came out on this firm years ago, there is still a severe lack of female partnership. Note that they made offers to all of the 2020 male summer associates and but dismissed multiple female summer associates (I worked with one of them directly and thought she did better work than most of them, so this could only mean one thing). Then in 2021 they brought in twice the number of male summer associates than females. All of this information should be a huge red flag for any woman reading this review.