I’m in a high volume ID firm where I have to calendar all of my own deadlines and feel like a baby for complaining to myself because no one else seems to think it’s a huge deal. At my old firm, I had a kick ass legal assistant who did this for me. Also, at my new firm, I am required to draft the initial styles and certificates of service whereas I didn’t at my old firm. The pay is substantially more but I am so administratively bogged down. Is this something I can get used to? Any tips?

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It seems like the reason you’re getting paid more is that they’re skimping on paralegal services and giving you the leftovers. If you’re okay with that then stay I guess

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This is sort of my inclination but I think it’s also just growing pains because they had to hire a new assistant and paralegal to support me and a few others who also recently started. The paralegal and assistant are nice but not up to speed yet.

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Is the extra money worth it for having to deal with all of the admin work on top of the legal work? Because if it’s bothering you that much, I’d leave.

I started in ID too with an amazing paralegal and now I’m in house with zero support staff. It’s different of course, but I jumped from a law firm in between because of lack of support staff, since the admin work didn’t fully count as billable and would get rejected by clients often, creating even more of a headache.

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I got lucky and retooled into transactional through a law school connection. Essentially started from zero at the second firm (was a small local firm but they only did business/corporate work) I mentioned as like a “first year” even though I was a third/almost fourth year. It was a few years ago when the market was super hot. I went in house after almost two years at the firm.

But four of my ID firm friends left to go in house into litigation roles in house or into corporate/commercial in house for clients, but they were all Partners. I think it’s easier to make the switch as a partner in a more specialized area (like pharma/healthcare or construction) from what I’ve seen though.

No advice but came here to say I totally understand. I just went from the same as you to having an assistant and it’s great

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