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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

If you have no work ethic and you want to be just a number. If you want zero flexibility and no home/work life balance. Then this is the place for you. Management claims that their door is always open, that it's a team environment yet when you address the issues of being overloaded and needing assistance then you're told too bad, just keep doing it. When you're required to do overtime to complete your assigned workload and HR "frowns upon" overtime and then they decrease what you can be paid for going above and beyond, it's a slap in the face. The "big dogs" keep merging with other firms and then they refuse to hire additional supporting staff, which just adds more work to the limited staff only further burying them. On the rare occasion they promote within, the it's the employee that sleeps at their desk on a weekly basis, treats others like they're garbage, makes continuous mistakes, spreads rumors about everyone, etc. If none of this sounds like you the, run, run far, far away!

What is the best part of working at the company?
I can't remember anything tha was good at working at Dinsmore.  I guess that pay was good, but that was bout the only thing

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I really didn't have any stress there, I was pretty bored all day.  The area I was in was very slow, I litterally had nothing to do all day.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Enviroment is very stuffy.  People would just assume look at the floor rather than say good morning or hello.  People were not friendly 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very boring, I had very little to do.  If I did do something it was scan a document.  Was not challenging at all, I had to beg for work, and then I still would not get anything to do, so I jsut stopped.  If they wanted to pay me to sit and do nothing that is on them.

The company claims to have an "open door policy" and to be anti-retaliation but only on paper. Human resources will provide confidential information to higher ups to use against employees and sees no problem with putting staff in unhealthy or dangerous situations as long as it is beneficial to their bottom line. Dinsmore & Shohl views its employees as disposable dollar signs rather than human beings, and will ignore any amount of unethical behavior to maintain profit margins. 

I was a paralegal for just over 2 years. The onboarding training was actually very helpful and useful (normally I don't think I get much out of onboarding training). The people I worked with and around were amazing! The attorney I worked with left the firm to start her own practice, and I left to work with her since she's one of the best attorneys I've ever worked for in my 30 year career. It was a hard decision to leave since my colleagues were amazing and management of the Troy, MI office was really great. I find the best part of any job are the people you work with and Dinsmore has great people. The salary, benefits, etc. are comparable to other firms of similar size. The office manager was the best I've worked with! I truly miss Dinsmore and would not hesitate working there again.

Dinsmore does have a time clock  so you must be on time no matter what even if your bus gets in a wreck it doesn’t matter.  No mercy given.   The same holds true for lunch breaks with a bad server.   You still must make it back to your chair on time!  Pack your meal and run.    I learned no matter how hard you work, honor and loyalty do not make a difference.   Due to the aforementioned, the culture was pretty bad and most of the staff were miserable.  The hardest part of the job was doing everything at once for many uptight people.   The most enjoyable part was friends and team members members and developing many close friendships over the years.    

From my time there, I grew to have a great respect for all the management staff.  In some large corps there's a detachment between management and personnel but I didn't' find that here at all.  They are hard working, very fair, and create the environment as if everyone is in it together.  They worked with my schedule and didn't make me feel like my job was on the line for it; I really appreciated that and (I hope) I gave back as much as they'd given to me.  The most enjoyable part of my job was my team, I was happy to work with a lot of great people, even across different departments.  The only reason I left was because of a local opportunity I had.

With 8 floors and over 400 staff there was never an idle moment for my time assisting with projects and organizing and distributing various documents throughout the office. Interacting with hundreds of people on a weekly basis taught me a great deal about the diverse elements of a large corporate firm, and gave me insights into the sort of procedures that office personnel enact on a daily basis. Seeing firsthand the sort of work that goes into projects such as corporate mergers gave me a lot of context to apply my educational background in law to understanding the process up close.

There was a lot of typing and computer skills used.  In most cases I needed to think ahead about what was going to be needed next and begin before I was asked.  I learned something new all the time.  There wasn't much time for getting to know my co-workers but everyone was very professional.  The hardest part of the job was completing tasks for more than one attorney at a time when both deadlines were the same and both very soon.  I always enjoyed typing and organizing.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I worked at Dinsmore for 6 1/2 years and they are a good company.  I was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and had to take FMLA.  They paid me and I had no worries that my job was still available once I came back

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The amount of the workload, but help was always available if needed

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The atmosphere was great.  Learning new things everyday that I was there

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Answer emails, fax, copy, scan, title processing from start to finish

What is the best part of working at the company?
Many long-tenured people as a function of mergers.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of consistency due to so many mergers over last 12 years.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Helter-skelter due to the company's preference to NOT put policies in writing leading to attorneys doing whatever they want. Makes it impossible to manage! No moral compass.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Pulled in every direction, conflicting messages & values, elitism without the pedigree.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Legal assistant 4 salaries reported	$30.25 per hour
Billing representative 7 salaries reported	$22.29 per hour
Office clerk 5 salaries reported	$18.70 per hour
Associate attorney 6 salaries reported	$150,933 per year
Receptionist 1 salary reported	$24.00 per hour

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