How much do you give your secretary for Holiday gift?

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$100 cash to both assistants who help me and $100 to each paralegal.

As an associate in Chicago, I gave $100 plus $50 per year of practice. So $100 as a first year, $150 as a second year, and so on.

All the associates assigned to her gave her gave her $50 each. I think it was seven associates total. The counsel (3) banded together and chipped in probably like $200 each and the partners (2) probably like $500 each.

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