Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Employee Reviews

Great company to work for with lots of room for growth. Management is excellent and the events team was organized, efficient, and a fun team to be on. Hours can be long but that’s apart of being in the events industry. The work culture at BLG definitely stands out and the majority of people at the firm were great to work with. BLG are definitely leaders in diversity and inclusion and I would recommend working there to anyone.

Pros

Room for growth, great environment/teams, nice office

Cons

Long hours, low-tech, wasteful meetings

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Productive and fun workplace

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 20 May 2023

Amazing experience, staff was very friendly, and supervisors were nice to work with. The work-life balance is pretty nice, standard 9 to 5 but typically you can get away with heading out early.

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Amazing Workplace

Coordonnatrice (Current Employee) - Montréal, QC - 17 May 2023

BLG offers a work environment that is motivating, friendly and characterized by great teamwork. There are many opportunities to develop and the managers will make sure to support you if you demonstrate the desire to grow.

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Collaborative environment but slow in technological progres

BI Analyst and Application support (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 25 January 2023

I worked a developer analyst in BLG. The work life balance is good. The systems are legacy and requires a lot of patching at times. The management is good.office is very good and nicely maintained. After Covid all employees can work from home especially business services.

Pros

Free lunches and annual parties.

Cons

Technology

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Travail motivant inexistant

Adjointe juridique / Legal assistant (Former Employee) - Montréal, QC - 12 October 2022

Le travail d’adjointe à la pratique est plutôt celui d’adjointe administrative. Rien de très motivant et très longue période d’inactivité. Par contre le travail à domicile est accepté. Bonne atmosphère et employés des plus sympathiques. Trop de formations qui ne sont pas nécessaires à notre travail.

Pros

Bonne atmosphère et compagnes de travail sympathiques.

Cons

Travail inexistant et non motivant.

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Great, wonderful staff, managers kinda tried too but upper management didn't care/couldnt do much

Technical Support Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 11 August 2022

Amazing co-workers, (one stellar upper manager), wonderful back-end staff and genuinely caring/good lawyers (with a single bad apple, the shouty guy who punches walls!) but staff burnout was a thing and a lot of staff/lawyers quit. Support staff like me tended to stay but there were many little things management could have done to keep staff happy that just never happened (Work From Home!). Many staff commuted long hours for years, if not decades with no attempt to smooth things for them (on-call phone started ringing at 6:01 when the phone system could easily have been set to accommodate the two hours we were supposed to have to get home and get a bite after a full 9hr work day). Also zero advancement unless someone retired and ancient/non-existent IT tooling with no hint of automation or productivity thinking. Fight to get a testing environment, patching/update management, hardware and software auditing, laptop imaging, etc. Co-workers made it all worthwhile though (at-least for a while). Fun events (golf, dinners, etc) though.

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Professional and productive environment

HEALTH LAW DEFENCE LAW CLERK (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 10 August 2022

Professional and productive environment. Good mentorship. Good work life balance. Good pay and other law clerks do assist each other With processes, precedents and trial preparation.

Pros

Good staff, continued learning environment

Cons

Difficult to work for various lawyers at the same time

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Supportive and fun place to work

Billing Coordinator (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 31 July 2022

I only got to work over a busy period, but enjoyed the people and my time there very much. Was given all the necessary tools and guidance to do my job. I wish I was given more responsibilities as I am capable of a lot more but understand that my position was just to help out over a busy period.

Pros

Team building experiences, $500 annual home office allowance

Cons

Contract and no full-time positions offered in many cases

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Hire and let you go

Analysts computer systems (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 20 July 2022

I was let go 1 day before my 3 month period was up. I was told I was doing great and I would be continuing with the company So beware if you think that this is a good company. I you are a lawyer you should do just fine

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Great place to work

Business analyst (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 12 April 2022

Very stable and management is looking out for your best interest as long as you are honest and transparent. They will invest in your development and will help you excel in your role.

Pros

Lunches, events, colleagues

Cons

Slow salary increase

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Colleagues were great

Document Specialist (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 16 March 2022

The working group were welcoming enough to become a working family. Everyone looked out and supported each other when in need. The team came together when in need.

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Limited opportunity for advancement, even for lawyers

Lawyer (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 17 December 2021

I was very disappointed in my time at BLG. They talk a big game when it comes to caring about women in law and diversity and yet their equity partnership is overwhelming pale, male and stale. So many talented women keep leaving the firm and Racialized lawyers are not given a chance to succeed. The workload is also ridiculous and hiring a new person takes forever.

Pros

Mediocre pay

Cons

Culture, workload, no loyalty to its people, cares only about the numbers.

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Good compensation, great team

Finance Team (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 8 September 2021

The company supports its employees well by providing a good compensation package and striving to always attain a healthy working environment. Excellent camaraderie among the Finance team.

Pros

Good working environment. Supportive co-workers.

Cons

Work can be demanding and exhausting

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Fun place to work

ASSISTANTE À LA PRATIQUE BILINGUE FRANÇAIS/ANGLAIS (Current Employee) - Montréal, QC - 23 August 2021

Nice peopleNice environmentTrainingsI lile working at BLG because people are respectful, you get attention needed from HR if needed (i haven't needed but I know people who have), trainings in whatever you need to improve your work.

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Great salary & benefits - Lack of Communication

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 15 January 2021

Great team environment. Colleagues are willing to work together to complete tasks. Lots of turnover because of the lack of communication within managers.

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Terrible pay and awful management

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 25 November 2020

I hated my time there. The pay was awful, the open door policy doesn’t exist and the moral at the firm was awful. They have no loyalty to their staff but treat the lawyers really well. Support staff aren’t appreciated.

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Great benefits but office politics is too much

Kitchen Manager/Chef/Event Caterer (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 8 October 2020

In my time at blg I experienced a lot of bullying from managers when I spoke out against being bullied out of my position. Managers here will hire someone to take over your position without letting you go or moving you somewhere else first, leaving you feeling like you have no idea what your job is anymore. Then they wait for you to react and then blame it on you. It's a cut throat work environment, only apply here if you can handle it. Benefits and pay are great, Idk if it's really worth your soul though.

Pros

$$, no weekends, benefits

Cons

They're literally the devil

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Fun place to work

Senior Manager, Finance (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 30 August 2020

Workplace normal is a formal attire, but social interactions are fairly relaxed. Colleagues are friendly. Firm is very flexible regarding working onsite or from home.

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All about productivity and not much support for law clerks and lower paid support staff.

Law Clerk (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 2 June 2020

Most of the time it depended on the partner whom you worked for and if they were there for you. There was preferential treatment to some employees and others who worked very hard didn't have the benefit of someone treating them fairly.

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Five-star place to work!

Former Tax Partner (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 10 April 2020

Fantastic, highly-skilled and motivated lawyers and staff. The sky is the limit on challenging, meaningful work. I never felt anything but fulsome support.

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Extremely stressful and demanding lawyers

Practice assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 21 February 2020

I was employed at BLG for a year and the lawyers i worked for were extremely picky and highly stressful, nothing was ever good enough they do not realize how busy you are. HR has gone downhill they do not care about what you have to say i was a victim of harrasment i caught my lawyer talking badly about my work to another superior extremely unprofessional. Would constantly get stressful emails stay away! stressful enauls. To ic place stay away!! termination ketter in order to recrievr the rest of my severence pau

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