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I started with Holland & Hart's IT Department in November a couple of years back, through a placement agency. The position was advertised as temp. to hire, where the hiring as a permanent would take place in January.

As January approached, I was notified by management that I needed to wait until my contract expired with the placement agency, which was 9 months away. I kept my mouth shut, performed my work beyond expectations, and received rave reviews.

In June another employee was hired. In July I inquired about my being hired as a permanent employee in November and was told by management the best I could hope for was to be contracted through the following year. At the end of July, I was notified that the best I could hope for was to complete the contract, which would end in November.

In the beginning of August, management told me that due to no fault of my own, they were going to cut my contract to September 14th. By mid August, 8 minutes after I left work for the day, while one manager took the day off and the other hid in her office like a coward, I was contacted by my placement agency, which stated that management was letting me go as of that day because: I was standoffish with management and did not complete the assigned work.

It's not just the fact that management continued to cut my contract short throughout my duration with the firm, but it's their blatent lies about my work performance and overall demeanor. Every one of my projects were completed before their due date, the placement agency was receiving outstanding phone calls once per month about my performance, 6 projects were completed the day before being terminated, three months of projects sat on one manager's desk having never been reviewed, and management essentially ignored me in meetings, hallways, and side-bar functions three months prior to my termination, which was documented in emails by me to the placement agency complaining about the unfair treatment. In fact, the only time management was friendly were only the times right after I would find out that my contract was cut short.

Frankly, with over 10 years of work experience under my belt, I had never experienced such unprofessionalism, disrespect, and cowardliness. This is definitely not a healthy atmosphere.

What I interviewed for and asked questions pertaining to has never been what this job turned out to be. I was sold snake oil by the "leadership" that was desperate for bodies not team members. My skills and talents are wasted here just to complete inane tasks that have no efficiency to them.  The technology and processes are easily a decade or more out of date and you are met with "It works so don't make it better" attitude from "leadership" because it feels as though there honestly is ignorance surrounding the technology and tools that could improve this department and furthermore our chain-link in this company.

Paired that with a new manager who I am finding doesn't know his job fully, can't admit when he doesn't know something or does anything incorrectly, and micromanages every little thing for example to a point of asking why you look up an attorney's correct name spelling as if that wouldn't be self evident in record creation. 

My final straw has been the Corona-virus and George Floyd Protest response. After a company wide, building wide, and city wide emails went out urging business to not have employees near downtown and my department head has multiple times placed company values and productivity over the safety, well being, and piece of mind of those in this department. If the leadership truly understood the technology or was remotely motivated to improve this department then we would have the ability to be fully remote in all aspects of this department with the ability to only risk employees being here once a week to complete the physical tasks. But there is not concern, empathy, or motivation to improve. No one with any decision making power cares at all about the future of this department and how it functions. Just that it exists long enough to pay "leaderships" bills. 

Every other area of this company that I experienced has been wonderful. It honestly is just the lack of true leadership, motivation, and disrespect that has led me to decide that I HAD to leave this place for my whole well being. Mind, Body, Finance.

This will be evident shortly when this company will have lost 4 more employees in less than a year.

Holland and Hart is great, just AVOID THE RECORDS DEPARTMENT.

I am an attorney but was non-practicing and on the administrative side of things. I really enjoyed the people I worked with, and the firm environment as a whole is a very supportive, diverse (for the legal industry), and work-life balanced. Women are able to advance on the administrative/technology side--I can't speak to how easy it is on the practicing attorney side. My only issue was with my particular managers, who did not have the subject-matter or managerial training to properly support me or my team. If that had been different, and if I had been paid enough to cover my bills, I would have loved to keep working there. It's a very nice office in Downtown Denver and the people are great.

The training I received in this legal industry was minimal, and the department was extremely understaffed.  The work was crushing, and no time to take a breath.  There were some very nice people who didn't work in my area that I was able to interface with at times, but I was constantly threatened with micromanagement and lectured about how any time off, even for sickness, was a huge commodity around there.  Great job if you like no flexibility, and never-ending criticism.

I am an outgoing, friendly person and had just moved to Boise a few months' prior, so I was hoping to make some friends through work. People are a bit more reserved and quiet, so my personality did not quite fit in with the culture. The most enjoyable part of the job was I had a lot of autonomy to get my work done with minimal distractions and no micro-management. The hardest part was that some of the attorneys were not as responsive with feedback and input on outstanding client matters.

I am rounding out five years at Holland & Hart, LLP and I think it's an outstanding firm to work for. The benefits are incredible (4 weeks to start, 5 weeks at five years/vesting fully at 5 yeras/matching 401K/laid back attitude.) My only complaint is that if you are not an attorney, there is no room for advancement at Holland and Hart.

Despite the quality work environment, there is the drawback that the main office is in Denver, CO and there are no advancement opportunities without moving out of state.  As much as I would prefer to stay in my current position, I also need the ability to advance in my career in my current location.

The best part of the job is leaving for the day. The worst part of the job is not being appreciated. No accommodations for work to succeed. Unrealistic expectations of just one employee. Don’t tell HR any of your business. The annual raises are a joke, they are under 40 cents. Multiple people that are not your boss telling you what to do. Being micro managed at all times. Any complaints or concerns get ignored. 

Was personally responsible for working with all New Mexico class action clients in preparing and submitting their claims for defective Entran II tubing.  Reviewed, organized and summarized documents and depositions.  It was a nice place to work.  Left because I wanted to try my hand at real estate.

I liked working at H&H it was great working with so many different people. Also had great Christmas parties. Also I was a office floater, I covered all areas of the office services department. Would love to do that again. Miss everyone

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