Genuinely curious if yours actually do anything? They are laying off good attorneys and keeping these Leads who do literally nothing all day.
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I’m not sure what parts of the country are being referenced here but I know that my LC is very good. He always answers emails, guides his team and is available. He is very concerned about work load balancing. He works after hours, weekends and while on PTO. I would not want his job.
Our managing attorney has one foot out the retirement door. He never appears active online. The lead attorneys at my office are pitiful. If you kiss their as--s, and offer to do all their work for them, you can possibly get on their good side, but nothing too spectacular will happen for you. What someone else mentioned about leads being required to write bad reviews is true. I am close to about 8 of the attorneys at my SCO. We have all been there for 5+ years. We compared notes. Not one of us got a BTE overall on review even though we go above and beyond. Some of those expectations were out of our control and still held against us! When VTO rolled around a month ago, 5 of them got that offer. None of them took it because of the non compete clause but we are currently all interviewing for new jobs because the future looks grim here. It will be great when we all quit at the same time. Have fun training new attorneys to litigate. The leads will have to actually do work if that happens.
The Lead Counsel/Senior Managing Counsel manage people/work, they don't handle files (for the most part). And they do a lot of work that probably should be done by other people/departments (for example, they are manually assigning files, which used be done by the Assignment Team). Most were outstanding attorneys that were promoted to leadership/management, but just because someone is great at their job does not mean they'll be great at managing other people. IMHO, the best managers have a complete understanding of the work and people they're managing. The Lead Counsel/Senior Managing Counsel and all leadership positions that do not have this same understanding are destined to be bad managers. How the he-l do you manage or review someone's work if you don't know how to do it yourself? And the further up the ladder you go, the more out of touch the leadership is and they really don't know/understand what is actually done in the SCO's. And that's why you have so many policy/process decisions that don't make any sense to the folks that are actually doing the work, and why the company continues to get rid of valuable people/positions. I have yet to think "good riddance" of any of the folks let go in Transformative Growth, they've all been good people doing good work, yet there are quite a few people in the SCO's that are just terrible employees.
For the life of me I do not understand why Allstate tolerates so many bad employees. I bet each and every Allstate employee could give numerous example of folks that never respond to emails, are always behind on their tasks, are always away from their computer or distracted while working, who take extra long lunch breaks, who always seem to be on personal calls, who watch TV/movies/Netflix/etc. on their smartphone while working, who sleep at their desk or the break room, etc.. All these deadbeats just ki-l the morale in the office and good people leave because of it. I know many people in the SCO's that have left because they're stuck with either terrible support staff, terrible attorneys or terrible Lead Counsel. I've only ever seen 3 people fired in 10 years here. Until every employee is held to the same standards and policies are actually enforced, this will continue.
It is actual comical how little the Lead attorneys do in my office. They will pop in just enough to say hey I am around, but never answer emails or respond to things that matter.
Is that true that they have to write bad reviews? My sco has major attorney turnover. That would explain it
What a lead counsel does or does not do is set by the managing attorney (senior managing counsel). An effective managing attorney has lead counsels both manage and lead. An ineffective managing attorney takes the leadership aspect away from lead counsel, and tries to re-create every staff counsel office in the image of the MA's own office, regardless of different SCOs being in different states, in different cities and being different sizes. Lead counsels are then reduced to essentially being glorified auditors, called on to do review after review so that their reports can be criticized. If the lead counsels do not write up enough bad reviews, then the lead counsels are themselves given bad reviews. Look at the offices with high attorney turnover; that is a big indicator of an ineffective managing attorney.
cuéntame más, amigo. BTW, you were not on PTO lol
Lmao. Written by a lead attorney for sure.
Lead attorneys likely do way more than you'd think, but it isn't always visible... Only narcissists think everyone does nothing and they do everything. Op is probably a narcissist.
If executive leadership was smart, they’d go after the VPs and SVPs. They do no actual work.
Our leads and managing attorneys do absolutely nothing except pawn all the work off onto other attorneys. They claim they are in meetings all day, but I saw one of mine at the mall on MY PTO day. She was not on PTO. She was still there 3 hours later when I left in the food court line.
As far as I can tell, the managing attorneys do nothing.