Great Work Life Balance - Anonymous employee Babbe Employee Review

The islands is nice in the summer. The non-contentious side of the business is lovely, as is the marketing, HR and finance teams.

I am not normally one for giving reviews... but I feel it important to share this. The management of the litigation team is simply awful. In fact they have no management skills whatsoever. I really wish I'd considered the reviews on here before joining. Comments from senior members of the team / management about other members of staff behind their backs and negative comments about other lawyers on the island were not unusual. Management would also be jokily frustrated when matters settled (the gravy train must keep going). I have deep regrets about ever working there.

So many employees have left that there is plenty of office choice for remaining staff.

The (remaining) partners are inexperienced, insecure, secretive and impossible to work with. The ugly infighting among partners (including lawsuits against each other) makes headlines in the local papers. Multiple senior lawyers depart every year, often very angry at how they were treated. The firm is half the size it was five years ago. The firm now has such a bad reputation that the other island's lawyers either roll their eyes or laugh when they hear the firm's name. The firm has no HR policies, no annual reviews, no partnership track - your only interaction from managing partners might be caustic emails about timesheets, or unprofessional shouted insults if one particular partner has had a bad day. Awful, awful, awful.