a paralegal is an unqualified lawyer, yellow pads are principally a Yank thing

Role of a paralegal depends on the law firm and practice area.

It can be a quite hands on, lots of responsibility role (eg conveyancing, where most of the work for a domestic house sale/purchase can be done by a competent paralegal) or it can be a s**tty dogsbody role (eg corporate deals or big litigation cases, where paralegals might just spend their lives in a dark room producing or going through writing page numbers on bundles and bundles of documents.

Most are somewhere in between. At our place we use them for things that need someone with some intelligence to do, but which don't need an expensive qualified lawyer to do. So general support on big deals, preparing documents and files for court, low value/high volume document reviews and that sort of thing.

Posted By: CWC on February 6th 2014 at 14:55:02

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right - salary negotiation advice (sensible post!) applied for a job (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:29:10
- Look at market comps...look at sites like glassdoor, or whatever the UK equivalent is? (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 6, 16:16:08
- ?45k taking the piss (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Feb 6, 15:14:46
- say you want the job (General Chat) - asics_kit, Feb 6, 14:06:09
- quite unfair they do that. (General Chat) - robotbear, Feb 6, 13:55:56
- I wish my salary was as low as 27k! (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 6, 13:54:49
  - Why would you wish that? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 6, 14:50:09
  - What do you do? (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 13:57:13
    - paralegal (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 6, 13:59:32
      - 2 questions. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 6, 14:37:07
        
        a paralegal is an unqualified lawyer, yellow pads are principally a Yank thing (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 6, 14:55:02
      - in the City or regions? (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 6, 14:10:01
        
        very low odds of TC (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 6, 14:17:58
        
        worst of all worlds then :-( (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 6, 14:36:07
        
        I wish I'd trained to be a lawyer (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 14:59:41
        
        do you know greg plummer? (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 6, 15:19:09
        
        Actually, I'd rather have trained to be a plumber (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 15:21:44
        
        The life of a plumber isn't like you've seen on those short films, y'know. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 6, 15:36:36
        
        Haha (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 15:46:55
        
        ^^likes drinking tea and chatting to housewives (n/m) (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 6, 15:32:42
        
        Who wouldn't?! (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 15:46:28
        
        Likes tea bagging chatty housewives ^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 15:44:19
        
        The name rings a bell... (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Feb 6, 15:21:26
        
        ah... (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 6, 15:25:05
        
        I wish I hadn't! The grass is always greener etc. (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 6, 15:15:48
  - I'm old though! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:55:28
    - I'm not knocking it (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 6, 14:02:30
      - ^ ^ fluffer ^ ^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Henclrikus, Feb 6, 14:30:42
- Is there any option to put something like "Market rate"? (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Feb 6, 13:46:40
  - direct with the company - gone for the salary I'd be happy with approach and their loss if (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:49:21
    - Fair enough - best just to be honest in these situations rather than 2nd guessing (n/m) (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Feb 6, 14:05:54
- Base it on the salary you earnt at your last job. (General Chat) - peterindxb, Feb 6, 13:46:22
  - new job party will be in the POD's - all welcome (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:50:35
- Can you go in lower, with a view to a raise after 6 months once you've proven yourself? (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 6, 13:35:15
  - yep could use that too - cheers (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:37:07
    - Tell them up front you think you're worth the higher salary, however appreciate situations (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 6, 13:40:29
- it'll do your head in trying to second guess them (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, Feb 6, 13:32:31
  - yep true dat, good one - cheers x (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:35:10
    - That's what I went with for this Job bascially. Had a minimum, added a touch more on (General Chat) - megson, Feb 6, 13:39:02
      - ta (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:40:05
  - That's why I went contracting last tiem - you don't have to play those games. (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 6, 13:34:29
- I feckin hate it when they do that. It's totally unneccessary too - they surely must have (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 6, 13:32:22
  - Bosses in wanting the cheapest posisble labour nonshocka! (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 6, 14:12:47
    - Yeah, guess so. I'm quite lucky to be in an occupation with a pretty dire skill shortage, (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 6, 14:48:19
  - they are a Sunday Times top 100 company to work for so they should pay quite well (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 13:39:13
    - Difficult position to be in when unemployed. (General Chat) - walksie, Feb 6, 14:16:04
      - Know your worth, is great advice. (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 6, 16:17:52
        
        I'm priceless - but you all knew that (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 6, 16:30:41

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