How Law Firm Staffing Is Transforming

In the era of the telecommuting pandemic, law firms have moved their paralegals and paralegals to centralized, enterprise-wide resource centers, where staff have been trained to perform multiple roles across the firm. This trend is expected to increase in the legal industry in the future.

The one-to-one secretarial model for law firms is increasingly a relic of the legal industry’s past. Industry observers put the current attorney-to-counsel ratio between five-to-one and seven-to-one, pointing to the increasing technological independence of attorneys and a staffing model that corporate executives sought to reduce as they went remote.

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