Attorney - Anonymous employee Haug Partners Employee Review

The partners are unprofessional and attorneys and staff are regularly forced to listen to their inappropriate comments as well as their racist, sexist or political diatribes. The firm is terrible for women. The firm's "Executive Committee" has no women on it. In fact, the firm only has three partners who are women (two of whom recently made partner coincidentally after the firm was ranked "worst place for women to work." Women have been sexually harassed with no recourse and maternity leave policies are terrible. Men, however, are not even offered paternity leave at all. No respect or flexibility is given for attorneys who have families including young children. Associates are often forced to work in ways that are not consistent with their own working styles Partners act like they "own" their teams of attorneys, not allowing them to work in their offices, but rather forcing them to sit all day in a conference room together. This is terribly inefficient for legal writing, research and other tasks that require deep concentration and ideally quiet. Attorneys are constantly disturbed and thus routinely work nights and weekends when they can finally work in peace. The partners generally promote inefficient billing of their clients. Entire teams are asked to participate in every meeting and call, resulting in exorbitant bills for work that could have simply been handled by one or two attorneys. Partners don't have the attention span to review work product or brainstorm strategy on their own, so instead the attorneys must sit through hours of partners reviewing their drafts or thinking aloud (rather than doing their own work and resulting in numerous attorneys billing just to watch the partner doing what he should be doing on his own time). Finally, firm policies are paternalistic and patronizing. Attorneys may work from home only under the most extreme circumstances, not even being allowed to do so when they are sick. Sick days and vacation days are taken out of the same pool. Employees routinely come to work sick so that they do not need to use a PTO day. There is no accommodations allowed for life outside of the firm.