DLA Piper reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,040 total reviews)
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Charles Severs and Frank Ryan

69% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

DLA Piper has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,040 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DLA Piper employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Feb 25, 2023

Challenging

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary and benefits are good.

Cons

Very long hours, toxic hierarchy. Top heavy, layered upper management

2.0
May 24, 2022

Questionable, at best

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Worldwide footprint and big law experience are good on the resume, Cravath-scale pay.

Cons

Everything - questionable ethics of leaders, inept and “yes-man” HR department, focus on making money more than doing what’s right, horrible communication and feedback for associates and staff, passive-aggressive approach to associate management and reviews, partners also in leadership positions don’t pay enough attention to their practices, partners don’t manage their poorly behaved clients and associates suffer because of it, junior and mid level associates have only mediocre and inept “pool” assistants who provide terrible service for the most part, elitist and gossipy culture where those with a conscience or ethics feel like the odd man out, “unlimited” time off policy for attorneys is a fallacy and rarely does anyone actually feel free to take a vacation (let alone be able to not work on the rare occasion they do take vacation). Shall I go on?

3.0
May 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good offices Decent salary Some decent people

Cons

Secretary supervisors are like rulers of a dictatorship. Power mad and are on people’s backs for the smallest insignificant thing. No career progression for admin staff Them and us culture between admin and few earners

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