One associate used it to buy dog shoes
US law firm Kirkland & Ellis has reportedly scrapped its ‘Kirkland Concierge’ service, a luxury perk that gave partners and associates access to on-call assistants to run errands on their behalf..
The firm introduced the service in 2018 in partnership with Circles by Sodexo, billing it as a way to free up lawyers’ time from personal tasks that could distract from billable work.
The offering allowed time-strapped lawyers to call on a team of personal assistants for help with tasks ranging from booking holidays and making dinner reservations to buying gifts.
According to Financial News (£), which first reported that the perk had been axed, concierge workers carried out tasks as lavish as securing exclusive dinner reservations and organising complete holiday itineraries — right down to arranging electricians and dry cleaning pick-ups. One associate even used the service to purchase “snow booties” for her dogs.
It’s worth noting that whilst the concierge team carried out the tasks, any items purchased were paid for by the lawyers themselves.
Kirkland & Ellis didn’t respond to our request comment.
Literally the point.
If not assisting with things such as dinner reservations and holiday booking, what was the purpose?
Then you are also clearly out of depth if you don’t know what other services a concierge provides for a law firm 🙄
Your point, please.
WTF?!??!?!?!? This is so unfair, I need these workers so I can have my Lambo cleaned and my pedigree poodle picked up from Krufts classes while I spend 19 hours a day marking up SPAs for random PE bucket shops in Kentucky!
Poor them. We still have ours and it’s great.
Can’t lie, this Kirkland service was a great initiative and one every major law firm should (especially US law firms) at a minimum for Senior Associates and above.
Worst thing about US law firm life is how time poor you become, especially if you’re not living with family members who can do life admin for you.
As a barrister I have many junior clerks that I can send out on random and ridiculous personal errands whenever I please. My favourite silly errand is to send ‘Dave’ on a mission to buy a specific pack of fine cigars that I know are difficult to find.
What fun!
lol. Well now they can pay for their own concierge with their £175k salary
Kirk folk might have to think about selling their lambos
Honest truth – tried it a few times and it was crap. Won’t miss this “perk”.
Wow, those concierge assistants were closer to big law than DWF associates are.
Crazy!