New York : New York : Arkin Kaplan & Cohen : You don't want to work for this firm

You don't want to work for this firm
This is one firm that you don't want to be at. The most influential partners are Stanley Arkin and Michelle Rice, and they discard people like they were yesterday's newspaper. The turnover rate in the associate ranks is incredible, mostly because Arkin and Rice fire people at a record pace. One associate was fired literally IN THE HALLWAY. Another was fired because she allegedly wrote a poor memo. The problem was that the memo was written by a partner, not the associate, but Rice and Arkin never bothered to investigate. They just fired the associate based on the (false) belief that she wrote the memo. Incredible. This leads to another point: you will have no training at this place, and there are no reviews. Associates are left to fend for themselves because there is no program in place to train associates, to supervise their workload, or to review their work and give them an opportunity to defend themselves. Based on the rate at which associates (and even partners) are fired at Arkin Kaplan, it is more than likely that if you join this firm your legal career will stall here or perhaps even die here (it is tough to land another high-paying job after you've been let go by a small firm). If you take a job here despite this post, don't say that you weren't warned.
-- Anonymous, February 17, 2006.

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