She supports fee earners across the department advising clients in agricultural property transactions, wills and probate, tax planning and trust matters.
Kieran
supports fee earners across the department advising clients with commercial leases, land registration, Stamp Duty Land Tax and freehold acquisition and disposals.
Supporting our Fee Earners, your tasks will include: typing, diary management, billing, and some of the more routine aspects of the legal work.
Supporting our Fee Earners, your tasks will include: typing, diary management, billing, preparing and submitting Stamp Duty Land Tax Returns and Land Registrat...
Not exact matches
Last year's Best Employers Report generated 2,300 responses from
fee earners and
support staff at global, UK and City firms.
In a move that will enable law firms to analyse both
support staff and
fee -
earner costs through one supplier, BigHand will today (5 April) announce the acquisition of business intelligence and pricing solutions provider DW Reporting.
The firm is expecting that roughly 80
fee earners will lose their jobs and will launch a separate review of
support staff.
The firm launched a review in February that was set to affect 10
fee earners across the firm's insurance and shipping practices as well as six business services roles, which comprised a mix of secretarial and
support staff.
Believe it or not, the $ 957,710 attorneys
fee award (which Skadden will use to
support organizations that help Chinese Americans and low - wage
earners) reflects a discount in Skadden's
fees.
Many of our
fee -
earners have
supported the campaigning work against the residence test though organisations such as Young Legal Aid Lawyers, the
Meanwhile, the importance
fee earners place on diversity climbed to 3.9 from 3.7 a year ago, suggesting that despite all the efforts firms are making to be more inclusive — from internal
support groups to more targeted recruitment practices — more work needs to be done.
The big four Scots firm launched a consultation earlier this week reviewing the roles of at least 30
fee earners and a handful of
support staff across all of the firm's offices in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, with the exception of Manchester.
«Pay for
fee -
earners and
support staff are both rising, along with headcounts, and a lot of firms are now dusting down investment plans that were put to one side during the recession — renewal of matter management software, increased marketing activity, and refurbishment of premises are all on the agenda again.»
The Co-operative launched its family law department this week, with 22
fee -
earners and three
support staff.
In deciding whether LPM should be
support team - led or
fee earner - led, a firm's underlying technology and billing infrastructure are relevant factors and the report says: «Because LPM is currently in its infancy, some firms admit that their LPM functions are effectively managed using off - the - shelf software solution, such as Microsoft Project or Excel.
LPM is usually either
support team - led or
fee earner - led, with most firms interviewed by Jomati having opted for the former, which typically requires a substantial investment in personnel over a short period of time.
The result is that the
support roles skew female, which is going to explain some of the pay gap as
fee earners typically earn more.
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.
The concept of moving away from flat rate percentage bonus models in rewarding employees is also extending beyond
fee earners, with some firms either introducing or developing merit - based bonus structures for
support staff as well.
They are doing work previously done by solicitors — and they are becoming autonomous, case - handling, client - facing
fee -
earners, not
support staff.
The firm started piloting a new scheme — based on regular feedback instead of formal annual appraisals — in October last year, with
fee earners and business
support staff across various practices in London, the Middle East and Singapore involved.
The UK top 20 firm confirmed that a number of jobs - including
fee earners and
support staff - will come under threat, but stressed these would be kept at a minimum.
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.
The then 60
fee -
earner and 90
support staff firm used the undisclosed sum to invest in more integrated technology, namely Tikit's Partner for Windows practice management solution.
The Netlaw Media website is visited by a large audience of legal professionals from senior management and
fee -
earners to heads of legal
support and technology.
The Liberate legal services platform
supports practice, case and matter management with additional
support for CRM, client collaboration / interaction, document collaboration, OFR / Compliance and remote
fee earner support via pc or tablet.
There is also a training programme for
fee -
earners and
support staff, as well as a cycle - to - work scheme and free private healthcare.
This
fee - earning role will include progressing basic matters and
supporting senior
fee -
earners in more complex cases.
For example a 1:1 ratio will have 1 staff member
supporting 1
fee earner.
Last year, Stephen Mayson made some strong comments in Legal Futures on the way that some law firms create a distinction between
fee -
earners and
support staff.
Anderson Shaw & Gilbert reap the rewards of more self - sufficient
fee earners and better visibility of
support team workloads.
Main responsibilities involve providing high quality secretarial and administrative
support to
fee earners, audio typing, organise and prioritise a...
This role will be to assist
fee earners in their day to day work by providing
support and an efficient secretarial and administrative service...
Trainee Legal Secretary # 17,000 - # 19,000 Leeds City Centre My client is a Yorkshire based law firm who are looking for a Trainee Legal Secretary position to
support 3
fee earners within the commercial property department.