Moore & Van Allen Forum

(On Campus Interviews, Summer Associate positions, Firm Reviews, Tips, ...)
Forum rules
Anonymous Posting

Anonymous posting is only appropriate when you are revealing sensitive employment related information about a firm, job, etc. You may anonymously respond on topic to these threads. Unacceptable uses include: harassing another user, joking around, testing the feature, or other things that are more appropriate in the lounge.

Failure to follow these rules will get you outed, warned, or banned.
Anonymous User
Posts: 431119
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:32 am

Moore & Van Allen

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:57 pm

I'm trying to get a little more insight into what life is like at MVA, specifically compared to other NC firms like Parker Poe, SA, Womble, Brooks Pierce, etc. Currently in-house, thinking of trying to take advantage of the hot market to move to a firm, and my recruiter is encouraging me to apply there. However, some of the stuff I've seen people say about it on here has made me kind of hesitant (ex. I've seen it referred to as a "sweatshop" similar to CWT, MB, etc.). Sounds like the people are nice and it has a great rep, but the hours aren't really different from big law. So in terms of QOL, is it more like the Charlotte big law firms than the more typical NC mid-market firms that I mentioned?

Anonymous User
Posts: 431119
Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:32 am

Re: Moore & Van Allen

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Feb 15, 2022 3:18 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:57 pm
I'm trying to get a little more insight into what life is like at MVA, specifically compared to other NC firms like Parker Poe, SA, Womble, Brooks Pierce, etc. Currently in-house, thinking of trying to take advantage of the hot market to move to a firm, and my recruiter is encouraging me to apply there. However, some of the stuff I've seen people say about it on here has made me kind of hesitant (ex. I've seen it referred to as a "sweatshop" similar to CWT, MB, etc.). Sounds like the people are nice and it has a great rep, but the hours aren't really different from big law. So in terms of QOL, is it more like the Charlotte big law firms than the more typical NC mid-market firms that I mentioned?
I can't say whether it is a sweatshop relative to the other NC firms, but there is no possible way MVA is as sweatshopy as CWT. I know one person who made the transition from CWT to MVA and my understanding as of a few years ago was that they worked far less than they did at CWT (although they did have the odd super busy month here and there). Don't have any numbers to provide regarding how much they've been working at MVA though, unfortunately (although I do know they've been at MVA ~4x as long as they were at CWT, for what that's worth).

Post Reply Post Anonymous Reply  

Return to “Legal Employment”