LAA/Admin pooling system in big law. Love it or hate it? Specifically for seasoned, experienced LAA/Admins. Attorneys/paralegals: feel free to weigh in.

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Hate. Thankfully our firm only does it for juniors. It makes the system so inefficient. With each request, I need to provide all of the background and specific instructions again. When I was in the pool, I ended up just handling most of the work myself because it took less time.

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I'm in government and we all share a very small pool of support staff. There's massively evident favoritism by the support staff towards similarly aged, long term attorneys, and everyone else effectively just doesn't have support staff and will be treated as a hindrance to helping them with their preferred lawyers.

I can't imagine it would improve with more support staff

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All associates I’ve talked to hate it

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So many people I have spoken to hate it. Myself include. So why are we allowing firms to do this? Why are we not fighting for what works for us?

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