How Law Firm Staffing Is Transforming | The Legal Intelligencer - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Legal support teams are undergoing retraining to meet the evolving needs of their firms.
• Reed Smith and Fox Rothschild downsized their support functions in 2021.
• The specialization of support roles is leading firms to pay closer attention to staff demands.

In the remote-working pandemic era, law firms have moved their support staff and legal assistants into centralized, firmwide resource hubs where staff have been trained to handle multiple duties for the entire firm. This trend is expected to pick up across the legal industry going forward.

The one-to-one secretarial model for law firms is increasingly a relic of the legal industry’s past. Industry observers place the current ratio of attorneys to legal secretaries anywhere from five to one to seven to one, indicating attorneys’ growing technological independence and a staffing model firm leaders sought to trim upon going remote.

Want to continue reading?
Become an ALM Digital Reader for Free!

Benefits of a Digital Membership

• Free access to 1 article* every 30 days
• Access to the entire ALM network of websites
• Unlimited access to the ALM suite of newsletters
• Build custom alerts on any search topic of your choosing
• Search by a wide range of topics

Already have an account? Sign In Now

*May exclude premium content

source: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2021/12/30/how-law-firm-staffing-is-transforming/

Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.