re: Is a paralegal a bitch job

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have a job doing accounts payable and receivable pretty much

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Don't write off this kind of career if you can get on at a refinery or plant.
Great benefits and will make a good salary with plenty room to advance into cost accounting/finance/purchasing if you continue with school.

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if i could ever find a really good paralegal that was trustworthy, smart, and could manage an office i could really expand my firm with just

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The problem a lot of law firms big and small is that business management is a completely different skill set. You might be a great attorney or paralegal and absolutely suck at getting the bills paid on time and keeping the books balanced. In fact I would say this is the case more often than not.

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Any lawyer who has a great paralegal is terrified of losing her.

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As you say, “this aint [sic] 1990”. There are meh who act as paralegals too

You do all the work and the lawyers make the $$$$

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The problem a lot of law firms big and small is that business management is a completely different skill set

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oh i understand. i'm behind on the business side of things and it's hard to explain to my gf (also a lawyer but an employee) how that's the hardest part of my job

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and keeping the books balanced

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i read the ODC cases every month and the number of attorneys who can't use basic subtraction to do a proper disbursement is mind-blowing

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You're bad at math aren't you? Your posts per day rate is double mine and then some. I also exceed my billable requirement every year.

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Ahh the post count boom.

You don’t just sometimes read the board and not post? There are a shite ton of lurkers that never post. That doesn’t mean they aren’t spending hours a day reading threads

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I also exceed my billable requirement every year.

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That’s all that really matters