Squire Sanders

Vault’s Verdict: Squire Sanders associates report doing demanding work for dynamic clients. Lean staffing at the associate level has its perks and its drawbacks: it’s harder to break into top-heavy upper ranks, but one-on-one time with your seniors has its perks too. 

Associate Life

Satisfaction

• “The work is wonderful; top-rate clients, excellent, sophisticated problems to tackle; I am given a lot of responsibility and treated as a partner-in-training. It is a lot of work and I struggle with my own ability to manage work/life balance.”

• “It's got the right combination of learning useful skills (usually), working long but reasonable hours, dealing with high but reasonable demands, and getting paid a decent (but reasonable!) salary.”

• “I work on interesting projects. However, [there seems to be] a lack of honesty regarding partnership track, qualifications for a partner and, most importantly, compensation.”

• “Despite being involved in relatively sophisticated deals (particularly relative to other firms in […] Ohio), constant understaffing of such deals creates a very challenging work environment with few others to pitch in when needed.”