I’m going for a small/boutique firm to big law and had a question about support staff. How often do you use support staff (i.e scheduling appointments and time keeping). Also do you guys have an assistant assign only to you or is the assistant for multiple attorneys

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At my firm, we share assistants and paralegals. They are truly amazing - I don't know how they juggle so much work and still manage to get everything done.

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I don’t use mine at all unless it’s for reimbursement and sending emails to accounting to fix time entries. I never have them schedule my appointments.

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We also share assistants at my firm and, according to mine, how often people rely on them depends mostly on their year (i.e., partners and super busy seniors will rely on them for everything but juniors are more self sufficient). I’m more junior so I’ve only ever asked for help with reimbursements and opening new matters.

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