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Clark Hill PLC

Was not one of the better firms to work with. The HR person is a poor manager. Secretaries are treated well if you work hard to get on her good side, but her management skills otherwise are extremely lacking.  The only one good thing about that office was the salary, and there are a lot of competitive salaries out there right now. I'd say skip it. I very much wish I had. I was happy where I was, but was recruited with a vengeance to work for Clark Hill.  It was a huge career mistake in terms of stress, misery. I suffered greatly for the choice I made to go work for CH-Scottsdale. I left of my own free will after just a year, but it was obviously after just 2 months that I'd made a terrible, terrible mistake in judgment.

Their "training" was lackadaisical at best, consisting of little more than shadowing other people on Zoom. Not a good way to learn their software and processes. It felt like I was set up to fail from the very beginning. When questions inevitably arose, I was discouraged from asking them. The billing and E-billing teams are split up, which creates a lack of cohesion and a lot of avoidable mistakes by the billers, which are then dumped into the E-biller's lap to fix. You will spend your day putting out other people's fires, and you'll be yelled at by the manager for asking the team for help.

Typical day is more of an administrative working environment.  My attorneys are all Members of the firm and delegate a lot of t[heir work out to associates.  So, I do tons of administrative work, i.e., time, expenses, billing, Prepare for and organize meetings.  Organize travel arrangements, including hotel(s), car rental (if needed), etc.  When the time necessary I will prepare the documentation associated with the organization of a new corporation and file same with the Secretary of State.

Run reports, print bills, dispense to attorney, take calls from clients regarding billing questions.  I learned to multi tasks with accuracy and efficiency.  Management and the workplace culture was professional.  The hardest part was dealing with Birmingham, Chicago and Washington but it was also fun and exciting to learn so many things and styles from them.  I enjoyed going to meet the Chicago team.

Management and much of how the Detroit office views processes slows down the overall operations and advancement of the firm. Management needs to correct overall approach regarding support staff, in addition to making compensation more competitive firm-wide. If you enter in a support staff role, its a great place to start developing your career. For a quickly growing law firm, they should be very proud of overall firm culture.

Immigration Department is hiring all the time and upper Management should take a look on why.  Do not even consider working here. No structure. Very messy. Disorganized. Senior Attorneys have ego issues. Toxic place. Very Lazy People. No Support and They will throw you under the bus when they need to put finger on somebody to save their faces.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
The nicest people work at Clark Hill. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Depending on the department there are deadlines that must be met, last minutes changes or correction can be time consuming. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Document preparation, answering phones, emails, filing. A little chit chatting now and then.

Not a good culture to work in for the AR and Trust department.  The supervisor in place projects an air of "my way or it is wrong".  She has a very sarcastic and condescending way of speaking with her subordinates.  She wants to be involved and in the know about everything, but when you ask questions the responses are phrased to make you feel stupid.  It is a very negative way to run a department and build team unity

This firm has some truly talented and amazing attorneys who also happen to be great people.  The goal of the firm, however, was to grow.   And grown it has.  Somewhere along the way people became numbers on spreadsheets and that sort of thing, which provides no incentive to its aspiring want-to-be partners to either develop business or develop their skills.

This company has a long way to go.  There are no proper work flow processes.  Managers with the "authority" to make decisions have limited knowledge/lack skill-sets to make those decisions (change takes months or years). Detroit office "only" highly compensated , including bonuses 4xs other equally talented managers/staff in other locations.  Applicants beware, there are serious issues at this company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Office assistant 10 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour
Associate 1 salary reported	$85.00 per hour
Paralegal 3 salaries reported	$32.50 per hour
Attorney 2 salaries reported	$80.00 per hour
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