How does attorney or any small firm pay their employee?
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at
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I got a job offer at a law firm. It is a small law firm where the attorney works by herself. it is not a fast paced work. How do attorney make their money? how do they pay their workers? if they dont have enough clients or if they are not too busy, will attorney fire me? lets say later on i want to make $ 40,000 or above, will attorney pay that much for personal assistant? or will she hire different person so she can pay less? if it is assisting an attorney at small firm, does my pay come out of attorney’s pocket? how do I get paid? based on what? any experience working at small business? buy phentermine without prescription I need help.
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However the boss offers to pay. If you are not an attorney, you would probably get a straight salary. If there was not a lot of work you might be laid off.
Attorneys get paid either on contingency (usually 33% of the amount won) or on an hourly basis (upwards of $150 an hour and I’ve seen $600 an hour). So yes, if your attorney is successful with a few clients you could easily make $40,000 a year.
The attorneys get paid alot.It’s up to them if they want keep you. They can out source work or get temps.If you were an attorney what would you do.But if you do the para legal stuff,research,copies,filing,mail in going and out going.express mail,fedx,cleaning.court filing,The client pays for wages. That’s why you need a collector and account person.