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4 hours/day is not a lot of time. There’s no way you can handle that many cases and be efficient.
So that's not a normal caseload? I'm always stressed that I'm going to miss filing deadlines. I have about 40 open tasks right now ranging from responses to discovery, updating declaration's, request for order's, I&E's, financial disclosures, Joinder, etc...
*continued from above: We've had 12 people come and go since I've started because they couldn't handle the workload. I want to leave but I'm worried it wouldn't be any different at another office.
It truly helps to land a job with a great boss. I hope that you find a great boss too. All the best.
Although I now handle commercial Real Estate and estate planning/funding matters, I have a background in family law and I have worked as a paralegal for the last 22 years. I think the missing piece of the conversation is to determine what exactly you consider billable hours and what you are expected to do with the remainder of your time during the day. if you are working with a solo and you are handling everything else for the firm every day, then billing four hours a day is decent. If you are with a large firm and you have an assistant or a secretary who supports you and other paralegals/lawyers you should be billing closer to 8 hours of an 8 hour day.
That’s a big case load but does your firm assign cases to each paralegal? Do you all work as a team on each case? Are some paralegals assigned to Discovery and others doing petitions?
We bill 30 hours a week.