"The older, traditional role of a legal secretary is pretty much gone," said one industry observer. "The secretary of the future needs to have really strong IT skills ... and more multitasking than ...

Some fields come with perennial job openings, because basic human needs don’t change very much — health care and education come to mind. The legal world is like this as well. It’s an industry that ...

GROWTH within the legal profession has outstripped the supply of legal secretaries but, according to legal recruiters, many firms are getting around this by looking at candidates with transferable ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine and was written by Karina Sterman, one of ECJ’s Employment Department partners. It discusses the relationship between new ...

A new study shows that female lawyers may be unpopular with legal secretaries. Is this because lady lawyers are just too busy to be nice, or because people have higher expectations of female bosses?

Our sister paper in Missouri (subscription required, sorry), reported on a forthcoming study about legal secretaries. What I found most interesting about the story, but not at all surprising, is that ...

Steve Bryant is still hunting for permanent work more than four years after he was laid off from his legal secretary job at the New York office of Latham & Watkins LLP, which slashed more than 250 ...

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At large law firms, the definition of support is changing. After reducing secretarial personnel by 66 people, leaders at Reed Smith say by the end of 2021, those who remain will be retrained into an ...