Associates

Bowditch & Dewey provides associates with considerable opportunities for professional development, while respecting the importance of work life balance.

Co-workers are approachable and readily willing to offer assistance, resulting in a supportive workplace environment. The firm takes a genuine interest in the success of all its associates and overall is a great place to work.

Bowditch and Dewey fosters an environment whereby employees are encouraged to take an active role in their local communities. The firm continually promotes employee involvement in community groups and organizations and recognizes the importance of such activities.

I am fast approaching my ten-year anniversary with Bowditch & Dewey.

Throughout those ten years, I have seen Bowditch & Dewey support its personnel through the good times in their lives and the not so good times. They truly care about their employees and their community.

Recently, I had some very personal losses with two close family members hospitalized and dying within a week of each other. During their hospitalizations, I often left work unexpectedly. I was having a difficult time functioning at work, and only wanted to be with my family. Bowditch & Dewey accommodated my requests for time off without question. They sent flowers, made donations to charities and gave other personnel time off to attend the funerals. They even offered me additional time, beyond that recommended in its Policy Manual, if I felt I needed it. All of this is only part of what makes Bowditch & Dewey a good place to work. I have seen this kind of support over and over again for other Bowditch & Dewey employees in personal crisis.

During other times, Bowditch & Dewey is there to support not only its personnel but community projects as well. I am personally involved with the Holiday Project sponsored by the Paralegals and Trust Officers since 1998. This project provides holiday gifts for the neediest of families through the Worcester Comprehensive Child Care Services. Bowditch & Dewey supports our efforts by posting flyers and promoting the project to its personnel. They give us space to collect the gifts, the personnel to load the gifts into cars, and the time we need to deliver them. It’s an amazing sight to see six or seven cars filled with clothing and toys leave the Bowditch & Dewey parking lot heading for Worcester Comprehensive Child Care. Without this support from the Bowditch & Dewey management and its employees, this wouldn’t happen.

The history and goals of Bowditch & Dewey can be found on the Web site; however, the true makeup of Bowditch & Dewey is realized in the people who work here.

I am proud and privileged to be a member of this firm and an active participant in its growth. The attorneys are the most proficient in their respective fields, extremely professional and respectful of each other, as well as the staff which supports them. There is a true team spirit and sense of family within the individual practice areas. When one practice area requests the expertise of another practice area, all involved work with a common goal - meeting the needs of the client.

This team spirit can also be found in each of the three offices of Bowditch and Dewey; Boston, Framingham and Worcester may be separated by miles, but the superior technology afforded the firm, and maintained by a top-notch Information Systems Department, allows us the ability to work with each other as if we are all in the same room. The Human Resources Department has its eyes, ears and hearts open to the needs of each individual who works within the walls of Bowditch & Dewey. Whether it is training, health and well-being, or family care, HR is always there to help.

In the eight years I have worked at Bowditch & Dewey, I have witnessed the drive and the compassion of its people, the desire to maintain its excellent reputation, and the growth of the company as a whole. Bowditch & Dewey is like a chameleon; unique and always changing to stay current in this fast-paced world; however, the goal has remained the same since its establishment in 1914 - to offer its clients the highest quality of service. Without hesitation, I can say, that goal is met each day.