staff accountant

supervisor

paralegal

operations associate

litigation paralegal

Aldridge Pite, LLP

AP is excellent for getting entry level legal experience, but do not stay for too long.  The work can be very stressful, as the nature of this business is based upon speed, turnaround times, and court mandated deadlines, which are closely monitored by management. This leads to micromanaging. The average hourly employee raise is between 0% and 2%. This amount is so low that it fails to keep up with the annual rate of inflation, so the longer you work here, the more money you will lose. A 401k is offered, but with no match. Health and Dental are minimal.     

Additionally, the pay is extremely low in comparison to other local legal or mortgage related businesses. This is why they hire a lot of entry level candidates with no legal or mortgage related experience.  The low pay creates high turnaround, as the more skilled and capable people are able to move on to a better paying job within 2 years or less, while the less skilled will often remain.  

There is little to no formal training.  Training consists of sitting next to someone watching them perform the task while taking notes.  There is some online mandated training, but it's focused on HR or client mandates, and are not related to your day to day work.

There are no perks for hourly staff. There are no bonuses.  There are no merit based incentives.  They do not even provide basic quality of life perks such as Kleenex or basic over the counter medicines during cold or flu season, or on site flu shots. Work spaces are very cramped, with three people are often set up in a cubicle designed for two. The plastic cutlery is the thinnest and cheapest available.  The indoor break rooms are also extremely cramped, but there are outdoor tables with little to no shade.  Most people just eat at their desk, which means your constantly smelling and hearing someone near you eat.  The room designated for nursing mothers is constantly being treated for roaches.  For about 175 on sight employees, there are only 30 parking spaces and about 8 toilets.  There are often lines to use the restrooms. The bathrooms have little to no ventilation.  

The IT infrastructure is extremely unstable and often crashes, resulting in people getting sent home early on a regular basis. The firm also went cheap and dropped Adobe in favor of a program called Foxit Phantom.  This program is horrible. Every time you close a PDF file, this software will freeze.  You have to close it out manually using Task Manager, otherwise it will take forever to close on its own.  Once your PDF is closed, then you get a pop up box for a crash report, which you of course have to close out. What used to take one mouse click become an unnecessarily over-complicated and drawn out process overnight. When Adobe Acrobat becomes a perk when looking for new employment, you should probably reevaluate your software choices.  

Overall, the moral of staff is very low.  However, this would be a good opportunity for someone with little to no experience or for someone just getting into the job market.  AP makes it clear abundantly that you should not stay here long, as your rate of pay will not significantly increase from your time of hire, regardless of your performance.

Bottom line, a typical day at work is conducting payment histories on loans, which in itself is pretty boring. If you love numbers, this is the job for you. If you don't, perhaps you should look for work within another department or another firm altogether. I have learned how to conduct a payment history which apparently is a skill that certainly comes in handy working within this particular area of law. My manager is amazing, fair, kind and surprisingly flexible! Also, the staff members on my team are awesome! The hardest part of my job is actually looking at the numbers all day and keeping track of what is happening on the loans. Also, the other staff members within the department are not very friendly. No one is outright rude--they're just not welcoming or inviting. Lack of communication seems to be a common thread within the whole firm (the whole one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing). And I get the sense that they don't pay very well. The most enjoyable part of the job are the people on my team.

In my experience, Aldridge Pite is one of the most unorganized and unsupported workplaces I’ve ever worked in. Training was almost nonexistent despite the workload being detailed and demanding. New employees are thrown into complex tasks with little guidance, which creates constant stress and avoidable mistakes. 

The management culture made things even more difficult. The supervisor I worked under often created what felt like an unprofessional environment. In my personal experience, they used strong and offensive language regularly and spoke negatively about other employees, which gave the impression of a divided, gossipy, and unhealthy team dynamic. Instead of constructive support, the tone often came across as crude, inpatient ,dismissive and inconsistent.

Overall, based on my experience, I would not recommend this company to anyone who values proper training, respectful leadership, or a stable and healthy workplace. LOW PAY also.

Everything about Aldridge pite screams NEGATIVE. Management just doesn’t care and only promotes friends or if they need to throw their work off on someone else. There’s a revolving door of people that come and go because there’s no training; they sit you in front of a desk and you literally have to figure it out yourself or quickly make friends with someone around you so they can show you the ropes, otherwise you’ll be just sitting there day by day frustrated and instead of taking the time to properly show you, they’ll just say your not a good fit then terminate you. I’ve seen it happen for 5 years!!! They will OVERWORK you then replace you. They’re jobs are all secured because all of them are friends (managers, HR, supervisors) so you can never feel comfortable enough to express your concerns without them going back and telling while their having cocktails on the clock. The work that is given to you is actually 3 separate jobs that they merged into one role for the same pay. 

The management here is very unprofessional. They talk about their employees out loud on the floor to seasoned employees. I don't think managers should be close friends with their employees it comes off as favortism. I dont understand having a supervisor with only 3-4 people on a team which includes a team lead as well. These teams should be bigger with the need of both. Training isn't good at all. They ask other employees to train you and they really don't want to. They are no procedures set for the job function. They should train employees the correct way in a training class. Benefits are terrible and very expensive. Work loads are crazy and overloaded. Expectations are too high. They need to hire more people. Yearly increases are nothing. Overall I would not recommend this company to anyone unless you are desperate for a job. Oh and layoffs are often!!

I saw firsthand why this firm has such a high turnover rate.
There is no formal training in place to effectively train you to do your job, so be mindful that if you are not thoroughly trained and you attempt to do the work there, you will be reprimanded and threated with termination because you were supposed to come into the job knowing what to do. 
There is no accountability for the management or the supervisors here. Also, it seems people are just given promotions into managerial positions because they can smooze really well. Their personality, work ethic and knowledge of the functions definitely arent pivotal when been selected as a supervisor or a manager because there is no way you would have the people which hold these positions at this firm as employees. Everyone isn't fit to be in a capacity of a supervisor or manager.

I think as with anywhere, The level of job satisfaction depends on the actual work performed, as there are many different departments within this firm.  I think it also depends on the management of that team, which I know that they have tried to perfect over the years.  I enjoyed my time here and learned a lot during my time.  I had some bad management, and some good ones too.  I always felt like I could bring my issues to lie and they would work to resolve them quickly and discreetly. I felt like upper management really cared and I could see that the executive team I really tried to weed out the bad ones to improve culture and align with their overall values.  I would highly recommend working here.

Unfortunately this work environment is loaded with individuals that appear satisfied with what really is a dead end job. In turn this results in panic when times get tough and cuts need to be made. The owner is a self-proclaimed “numbers junkie” so the bottom line is all that seems to matter in an industry that has massive peaks and valleys. The company itself presents a thin vail of caring for its employees by propping up rather disingenuous measures (i.e. free bagel for former military on military appreciation day). By the end I was disappointed in myself for sticking around longer than I should have. At the end of the day, once you’ve hit your limit of what you can get out of it, you’re only there for a paycheck. And it’s not nearly a big enough check to stick around.

Toxic environment managers play a lack of favoritism.  Foreclosure Mangers hire their friends that have no experience within 2 months put them as supervisors. The firm is a unnecessary stressful atmosphere that the managers orchestrate. During the beginning early stage of Covid19 they still force us to come to work.  They hire inexperienced people in the foreclosure to pay less money.  This is a corporate firm, not a traditional law firm. The health benefits are expensive. The performance manager and attorneys are all males. The corporate law firm constantly loses clients and partners this interferes with their budget.  They try to hire inexperienced employees to pay low salaries.  

This firm is insane. Low pay. Constant micromanagement. There are way TOO many managers who have nothing to do but track your time down to the minute. This is not an exaggeration. 

When you call out from work, you must give extremely personal details of your life to get the time approved. Even partners have to do this. It’s embarrassing. They must send emails to the entire department detailing why they will be out. 

And all of this for LOW LOW pay. This firm does not even pay a living wage. Do not apply unless you want to be treated like a child who works at McDonald’s. Actually, the workers at McDonald’s are likely getting paid more. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Staff accountant 1 salary reported	$50,000 per year
Supervisor 3 salaries reported	$53,812 per year
Paralegal 3 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Operations associate 3 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Litigation paralegal 2 salaries reported	$62,500 per year

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