Lawstop Reviews

Business model is built on exploiting desperate law graduates early in their career, still passionate about social justice. Therefore, unlikely to change substantively. Bullying (by one particular solicitor) is an open secret and tolerated by management. Said solicitor often run through paralegals. The latest escapee had to take two weeks off from stress. Paralegals are not provided with enough training and are expected to hit billing target very quickly. There are hidden targets (performance markers you are expected to hit but not communicated to you). Pay is not competitive at all, thus a very high turnover rate. There are maybe 2 - 3 paralegals that lasted more than a year.

- Stressful work environment due to the nature of the work. - Lack of cohesive supervision styles causing misunderstandings within teams of how work should be conducted. Exacerbated by the lack of communication between management and staff. - Solicitors are overworked and as a result are unable to fully support their paralegals (hence the thrown into the deep end) - Turnover rate is extremely high, shortest being a week and longest around 2 years (as of writing) for paralegals. Average paralegal life span is around 3-6months. Which causes quality of work to be affected due to the constant changing of caseworkers.