Good news from this Robert Half Legal survey looking ahead to 2007! "Average starting salaries for legal professionals in the United States are projected to rise 4.7 percent in 2007, according to the just-released Robert Half Legal 2007 Salary Guide. Larger increases in base compensation are expected for attorneys with one to three years of experience at small to midsize law firms, first...
Yeah, the first thing you're asking (I did too!), is what is a Mechanical Turk? "Some day, your boss could be a faceless Mechanical Turk who doles out tasks over the Internet. For nearly a year, Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk has paid amounts ranging from one cent to several dollars for tasks that take a few seconds to a few minutes to complete. The jobs include taking surveys, contributing to...
Must read this article! "The $16 billion merger of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. represented a high-water mark in the legal cattle call known as document production. Some 600 contract attorneys converged in Washington, D.C., to work on the SBC side of the deal, where the telecom giant's antitrust counsel, Crowell & Moring and Arnold & Porter, ran a massive antitrust...
One of our Paralegal SuperConference speakers, James Wilber from Altman Weil, publishes national salary survey. Ouch, NJ is the lowest: "Paralegals in New Jersey earn markedly less than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to a new survey of paralegal compensation. "If they worked in Newark last year, their average pay was $53,909, including bonus and...
As described in this article, closing access to salary info may lead to less of a lockstep approach to pay. And perhaps paralegals will also be paid for their performance, not simply years in the field: "When Robert Tucker and 35 other partners jumped ship as Arter & Hadden was sinking in 2003, they wanted to leave behind the infighting about money that had pervaded some of the...
About 500,000 paralegals work in the U.K. today. Many earn between £50,000 & £80,000 annually ($92,045 to $147,280). And with higher salaries comes a more professional standing: "Largely unnoticed, the paralegal profession has grown to 500,000 practitioners: 50,000 in the legal profession, the remainder spread throughout every other sector of the economy. "Paralegals do work that...
Ah, if only a survey about paralegal salaries could be so compelling! "Reminiscent of the teenage girl who conforms her fashion choices to those of her clique's alpha, many Atlanta law firm recruiters -- when pressed on summer associate salary details -- first asked, 'Well, what are other firms doing?' "Then they followed the alpha. "'Same ole' would have been the likely answer for...
Yes! Tough way to get recognition though: The cooling real estate market offers a bit of good news for cash-strapped home buyers: The affordability squeeze has eased slightly. "Rising mortgage rates are cramping consumers' budgets, however, and local employers and politicians continue to fret about the ability of teachers, nurses and paralegals to afford homes. Frustrated borrowers either...
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There's more talk about outsourcing legal research & paralegal jobs. One report says that by 2015, 79,000 jobs will be outsourced; half will be legal staff & paralegals. Will your job be one of them? "General counsel should know of the dramatic increase in compensation levels for associates working for large Texas firms. As in the past, the reason for the increase was that Texas...