Stay away from this firm - Paralegal Stuart Miller Solicitors Employee Review

Thank you former employee for your comments and feedback. Indeed, working at a Criminal Law firm with the pressures of defending people's liberties at a pittance from the Legal Aid Agency is not easy. If it were up to us, we would pay everyone £100,000 to work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week. Sadly, that is not the state in which we live and justice is waved around on the cheap. We appreciate your words but disagree with your opinions. We have the highest bracket of salaries in Criminal Defence £22,000 to £25,000 if you have some experience. If you have no experience, then we are paying you to teach you and even then, our salary is £20,000. We are not a corporate / commercial firm able to pay £30k plus to paralegals. It is incomprehensible that a top 1% UK law firm can hand-over to 1 paralegal ,or Solicitor, 100 files. Your suggestion would mean we have more than 4000 active files right now, which we wish was true, but regrettably is not. If you are merely writing client-care letters and client-closing letters, then we expect you can handle more than 100 files at a time, as it takes 1 hour to complete this task, 7, in a day, 35 a week and 140 a month. CCTV is indeed in all accessible areas of the office and thankfully so. Just last week (October 22) we had to call the police after our staff were attacked and abused in the office and much credit to our cameras, we held evidence to deter others in the future and ensure safety and security to our staff. This policy shall remain, as it does in all corners of the world we now walk; there are cameras everywhere for safety security (aside from the fact that we have 3 floors and 16 different zones to monitor, which simply cannot be done without cameras). In any event, thank you for your service with us. If you lasted in our hard working, fast paced and highly stressful work environment for this period, you must have been very competent and adding significant value to the firm and our clients. We thank you for this contribution and wish you the best of everything in the future. Stuart Miller Solicitors