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The Matian Firm, APC

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Exploitative treatment and malpractice - Paralegal The Matian Firm, APC Employee Review

1.0
Jun 6, 2020
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Pros

There really are no Pros.

Cons

I've worked at firms in the past, and this is by far the worst firm I have worked at. The company does not care about its clients and they are consistently performing legal malpractice. The intake team is exploitative and spread misinformation, telling clients "Well, if you don't come in and pay us, you'll probably get deported!" They take client's money and assign cases to paralegals and attorneys who do not care about the outcome of their case. When clients ask for refunds, the company does everything they can to con them out of their money. They have countless complaints pending with the CA State Bar for a reason. Some attorneys are not even licensed in the STATE OF CALIFORNIA. Many paralegals have not completed a basic 4-year degree. Employment is at-will and has extremely poor benefits. Their definition of quality benefits are catered lunches every few weeks to mask their poor benefits. Few sick days. Medical and dental packages are awful. You will be paying out of pocket for most services. No vacation time until you have been at the company for one year. Don't expect to have paid time off until then. Many employees leave before then. The company does not disclose salaries to their employees. If you are a Paralegal, you will have no idea whether the person that got hired last month, with less education or experience than you, is making more or less. Legal supervisors and attorneys provide little to no support, mentorship, or time with you. Supervisors simply approve your payroll and go on about their day. The company culture is extremely dull and cliquey. At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, many employees were concerned for their health and safety. Despite numerous concerns from staff, the company refused to enact a work from home policy for several weeks despite the number of growing cases in Los Angeles, San Jose, etc. Shawn and management continued forcing employees to come into the office despite municipal stay at home orders. Rather than allowing employees to work from home, they cut hours in half for hourly employees in order to maintain their own company profits. While they did eventually allow a "telecommunicating" policy, we found out one month later that is was ONLY because an employee at the company had COVID-19. They enacted a telecommunicating policy only when they had to by law. The company, rather than producing a safe, work from home policy at the start of a global pandemic, waited until the the absolute last minute.

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5.0
Apr 10, 2026
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Pros

Nice work environment , no stress

Cons

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1.0
Jul 16, 2025
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Pros

When I first started, there were multiple admin teams, but those are all gone now. If you work in person, I guess you get the perk of like, an occasional lunch or outing. If you work remote, none whatsoever.

Cons

Where to even begin? Abysmal pay, minimal benefits, complete lack of respect for staff and clients, extremely exploitative and aggressive style of getting clients. I had multiple clients tell me that billing threatened to report them to ICE if they didn’t pay. The caseload is obscene - at one point I had a caseload of 500. Every day clients call absolutely furious bc their cases are getting neglected bc there simply isn’t enough time to do them. Dozens of clients with a year or more without contact. They take soooo many cases that simply aren’t eligible for the services. Your license is genuinely at risk if you choose to work for them. And that’s just the more serious issues - you have to do the admin work and reports that normally the managing attorneys at any other firm would do themselves. From what I can see, management mostly spends their time doing media, photo shoots, and harassing any staff member who happens to blink at them wrong. This job gave me actual stress nightmares for months. Avoid at all costs!!!!

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