Full Time Employee, Chelmsford - Anonymous employee Kennedys Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of nice people in the office. Very convenient location and some flexibility with working from home. Excellent place to work if you love robbing a company blind through unmonitored overtime.

Cons

Abysmal management and no aknowlegement or praise of good work. Strange obsession with hunting for mistakes by management. No progression for junior staff unless you have friends or family within the company or can withstand a sideways promotion doing the same monotonous accounts for dummies data input tasks. Communistic labour with no incentive to work hard as you will never be praised or rewarded and your line manager is on YouTube next to you. Plus no one is looking at the data anyway. Don’t waste your time working hard and trying to earn a promotion, just enjoy it for what it is, doss.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2025
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Pros

- Amazing office manager - Amazing colleagues who help and stay long late when needed - Attorneys are great to with for and are very helpful

Cons

- Bathrooms, especially those in female restroom, could use more soap. Otherwise, amazing place to work and no cons.

4.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Your experience in Defense group is highly dependent on who your managing partner is. Good work-life balance. Manageable case load. Fellow associates generally nice and willing to help. Secondment program allows you to take a week long work trip to another Kennedys office anywhere in the globe and learn about foreign legal system. Depending on your team, you can handle some really interesting cases that even go outside of ID realm.

Cons

Support staff sucks. Management doesn't want to invest in support staff. Pay is not the best. NY firm is a bit siloed. Its still ID work so it can get miserable at times. Sometimes firm culture can be a bit catty - lots of people talking behind your back and you gotta watch what you say to certain folks.

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