Does anyone have any info on these positions? Pay? Billables? Do you get your own office?
Did a search but came up empty.
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Re: Staff Attorney Positions at Big Law Firms
All of this varies depending on the firm and location. Staff attorneys at a couple firms in NY I knew didn't have offices because space was so tight, but in Philly I knew a couple at two or three firms that did.
Pay is all over the place depending on what work you're doing. I hear 90K a lot at big firms in major markets but that's highly anecdotal.
Pay is all over the place depending on what work you're doing. I hear 90K a lot at big firms in major markets but that's highly anecdotal.
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Re: Staff Attorney Positions at Big Law Firms
I did this for a minute. Own office, technically no billables but highly advisable to pretend that it was the same as an associate's billable requirement, $100K.
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Re: Staff Attorney Positions at Big Law Firms
Mostly a dead end track. Secondary markets the pay can be like $60k. Generally unstable and firms will cut these attorneys without even thinking about it. Generally rank somewhere below paralegals and good legal secretaries in the pecking order.
I knew a girl from my fourth tier law school who tried to claim that she worked at a "big law firm" as an "associate." This was a bit surprising because she was particularly brain dead in law school. She even brought her laptop along to a wedding we all attended a few years after graduation so that she could pretend that she was working on a big complicated motion, etc. As it turned out, she was unstable (shocking) and ultimately got really drunk and admitted that she was just a staff lawyer doing monkey doc review. She ultimately lost that job and fell off the face of the earth.
I knew a girl from my fourth tier law school who tried to claim that she worked at a "big law firm" as an "associate." This was a bit surprising because she was particularly brain dead in law school. She even brought her laptop along to a wedding we all attended a few years after graduation so that she could pretend that she was working on a big complicated motion, etc. As it turned out, she was unstable (shocking) and ultimately got really drunk and admitted that she was just a staff lawyer doing monkey doc review. She ultimately lost that job and fell off the face of the earth.
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Re: Staff Attorney Positions at Big Law Firms
My position was specifically designed to lead to an associate position. A lady I started with is now an associate after starting as a staff attorney.
Really, it's a title that allows the firm to move you around or assign you work differently than a normal associate, so the position will be very unique to each firm.
Really, it's a title that allows the firm to move you around or assign you work differently than a normal associate, so the position will be very unique to each firm.
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Re: Staff Attorney Positions at Big Law Firms
my biglaw firm also uses the staff attorney position as a trial period potentially leading to a partnership-track associate position
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