Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require ‘more handholding’ at work

180k as an NQ is wild. What will the support lawyer be on?

This is the silliest thing ever. If employees are gen z, applying common sense we can infer they will be young, meaning they will come across new things never done before – of course they will need “hand holding” aka training to get to grips with things. As will any person starting a new job/ role

Do tell – how do you interpret “more handholding/explaining needed for GenZ/post-lockdown”?

This gave me a chuckle. My TC at a US firm was in many ways a complete waste of time (including for the firm).

Multiple seats I billed only double digits in six months because nobody could be bothered explaining how to do things or what tasks actually meant in the context of a deal, it was simply easier to send it to the team of paralegals.

And who can blame them? The turnover of staff was so severe that junior associates who came from different/better environments were unsure how to deal with trainees without materials, while senior associates were often in the process of leaving, meaning they couldn’t be bothered to supervise either. Combine this with the fact that time for supervising trainees was non-billable and all of a sudden things made sense, albeit only after 3 wasted seats. Thankfully I landed on my feet elsewhere (riding on the ‘US firm’ rep) but retention was approx 50%, unpublicised of course, with those retained having almost always paralegalled there in the retaining team before! I finished honestly asking myself what the point was, including for the firm.