Rosling King has rejected a claim that partners ordered staff to give it glowing reviews.
City firm Rosling King specialises in negligence claims against professionals and enjoys a colourful reputation in the market for litigation tactics described by a judge in 2013 as "wholly unacceptable".
According to reviews left on Glassdoor, staff also hold it in low regard. Before June 2016, nine employees had left reviews of the firm. Seven of them gave it one star out of five. The others gave it a lofty two. Their verdicts ranged from the bad ("Horrendous: morally questionable clients, horrendous leadership, ridiculously high staff turnover. The day I handed in my notice was the best day of my life. Do not work here if you can possibly avoid it.") to terrible ("Avoid like the plague: A pervasive 'blame' culture where junior employees are held responsible for the failings of their supervising solicitors and partners."). However, in a two week period between 23 July and 4 August this year, nine gushing five and four star reviews appeared. Described as "unsubtle" by an inside source, seven reviews specifically singled out the CEO for praise. For others, even the cons were pros:
But a rogue one star review posted on 3 August suggested that PR dark arts might be at play:
A spokesman for Rosling King conceded to RollOnFriday that the issue of the stinking reviews “was raised at a recent RK meeting by an associate", and, "That a number of our staff subsequently wrote positive reviews about their working experiences at our firm clearly reflects their feelings".
The spokesman said, "any suggestion that senior management at Rosling King coerced staff into writing positive views about the firm on a website is categorically untrue and defamatory".
Leaving his own five star review, he added, "The vast majority of our hard-working staff have been with the firm for several years and are a great team”.
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City firm Rosling King specialises in negligence claims against professionals and enjoys a colourful reputation in the market for litigation tactics described by a judge in 2013 as "wholly unacceptable".
According to reviews left on Glassdoor, staff also hold it in low regard. Before June 2016, nine employees had left reviews of the firm. Seven of them gave it one star out of five. The others gave it a lofty two. Their verdicts ranged from the bad ("Horrendous: morally questionable clients, horrendous leadership, ridiculously high staff turnover. The day I handed in my notice was the best day of my life. Do not work here if you can possibly avoid it.") to terrible ("Avoid like the plague: A pervasive 'blame' culture where junior employees are held responsible for the failings of their supervising solicitors and partners."). However, in a two week period between 23 July and 4 August this year, nine gushing five and four star reviews appeared. Described as "unsubtle" by an inside source, seven reviews specifically singled out the CEO for praise. For others, even the cons were pros:
But a rogue one star review posted on 3 August suggested that PR dark arts might be at play:
A spokesman for Rosling King conceded to RollOnFriday that the issue of the stinking reviews “was raised at a recent RK meeting by an associate", and, "That a number of our staff subsequently wrote positive reviews about their working experiences at our firm clearly reflects their feelings".
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The spokesman said, "any suggestion that senior management at Rosling King coerced staff into writing positive views about the firm on a website is categorically untrue and defamatory".
Leaving his own five star review, he added, "The vast majority of our hard-working staff have been with the firm for several years and are a great team”.
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This really is a company which has little respect for its clients and no respect for the staff and god forbid you're sick or get pregnant....you won't be seen again!
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For those that haven't worked at RK the reference to 'I can make it happen' is, I understand, a company set up by the Head of Litigation's chauffeur...
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