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I’ve dealt with it for the last 20 years. I’ve seen it change very some with the older partners dying off and these younger attorneys are more unbiased.
I’m beginning to think the same, and probably add race to it. I have about 10 years experience and a masters of law in business and corporate law, about to take the NY bar exam and still struggling to land a good paralegal job. I have been applying for a while too.
I’ve been applying before I even started and completed my masters. That’s why I went for my masters because I needed it for the bar to land a better job.
My firm has three make paralegals but I believe it is company driven
That’s probably firm to firm and person to person. I’ve worked for 5 firms - the first 2 (smaller firms) I was the only guy, the most recent 3 (mid-size firms) there were several guys. In my experience, it hasn’t hindered me at all, but it’s hard to say if it was a factor at all. I’m near the top for compensation ($100k) in my city with 7.5 yrs experience. I’d like to think experience matters the most. How many years experience do you have and in what field? And what type of jobs are you looking at?
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While gender bias isn’t usually the official reason, some firms might unconsciously lean toward hiring women for paralegal roles just because that’s been the norm. On the flip side, I’ve also seen firms looking for more diversity in their hiring.
Interesting, everywhere I've worked it's been pretty evenly split, if not leaning towards male heavy. Maybe different sized firms/different practice areas have a role in it.
In my 23 years, I experienced working with 4 male paralegals. Two of them were very hard working and always ready to assist/collaborate with no dramas. The other two: one was so arrogant that whatever you say will not hear anything and take credit for work done and the other one super lazy (would come in at 8am, close the office door all day, go to lunch on time and still will come back with lunch and when you knock, would still say "I'm at lunch, I can't talk work."). I've been fortunate to have worked with females who have become my friends outside of work.
I’m sorry to hear that. That’s beyond frustrating. Be yourself and do your job to the best of your abilities. Show them you’re a professional.
I have a similar experience when I was at a bankruptcy law firm. My supervisor was a first-time-on-the-job college grad who happened to know a partner at the firm. That was his first law firm job. He did not know anything whatsoever about the job. There were about 15 paralegals and legal assistants under his supervision. I was the most experienced and taught everyone how to draft pleadings, etc., including my supervisor. He took credit for everything I and the others did. He would sit next to my cubicle learning the job all day and go to the partner’s office to showcase his knowledge. I didn’t say anything. It was a laughing stock for me. And everyone on the team knew he didn’t know the job. As he learned, he started to cast doubt on the team’s work and behaving arrogantly. But a different partner prompted the legal assistants to paralegals and the paralegals to senior paralegals. I was made a team lead. I requested to change teams but I found something better and left. It was a mess.
I wouldn't say they prefer hiring women over men. I honestly just haven't seen many men apply to work as paralegals at my law firm so I always assumed it wasn't that common.