Sentences with phrase «fee earning staff»
For sole practitioners, an ageing equity partner base and the lack of appetite from younger solicitors to become sole practitioners in the future, is placing a greater emphasis on succession and investment in the fee earning staff.
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Once a dog reliably performs these behaviors for both a volunteer and a member of Behavior Staff, they will earn their «Blue Ribbon» and qualify for a reduced adoption fee!
No additional fee will be payable (a nice little earning opportunity biting the dust there but perhaps they will make up for it by charging for hearing centre toilet usage or impose a booking fee to speak to a member of court staff).
Welsh law firms will be able to send staff on fully - funded Higher Apprenticeships from the summer, where they will train for fee - earning roles.
Last week, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer posted comparatively impressive figures to its peers, with male staff earning on average 14 % more than female fee earners, a gap which closes to 13.3 % when the median figure is taken into account.
Linklaters has not separated the pay gap data between fee earners and support staff; however, the firm's report notes that average pay for women across the firm is significantly impacted by the high number of female employees in its lowest earning group.
It is a bit nonsensical for law firms to include support staff in these calculations — when 95 % of the secretarial pool earning half of what the fee earners get (at the junior end, let alone the senior end) are women it is going to massively skew the figures.
Respondents to Briefing magazine's Legal IT Landscapes survey overwhelmingly agreed that machine learning / AI technology would have the biggest impact on legal services in terms of efficiency and competitiveness within the next five years, and that within 10 years it was likely to produce a significant reduction in fee - earning staff.
Many of our support staff have made the transition to fee earning and some have gone on to become solicitors or Fellows of the Institute of Legal Executives.