Legal Aid Practioner

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Originally Posted by Cookie182

"Effective 1 July 2007, the fees payable to private practitioners will increase to a base hourly rate of $150 per hour or an equivalent percentage increase applied to fees already above the base rate."

I expect what that refers to is the amount that Legal Aid will pay to private practitioners, when private practitioners are instructed or briefed by Legal Aid to do legal work on Legal Aid's behalf.

[amaccas]

how may solicitors would be on 600+/hour

[subdued123]

not many would be charging that much.

Most fee earners in large firms (yep, not even called lawyers, fee-earners in some places, esp. UK) starting out charge 250-350 and hour, and then 350-550 as snr associates.

Out on the suburbs your sole practitioner might get away with 150-250 an hour. But the sole practitioner actually keeps it. The lawyer in a large firm might end up billing 400-600k in legal fees a year, and gets a fraction of that. However, many firms now do what is called an incentive/bonus where you receive a small %tage of anything you bill over a certain amount.

Everything you need to know is here:
http://www.mahlab.com.au/index.cfm?pageID=43

Just register (it's free) and you will find some very helpful info. It tells you who's earning what.

P.s. Frigid is right - investment banking is where the big money is at (150k as a grad sound nice?) However the culture is by all accounts unsustainable and generally cut-throat. And when investment banks lay staff off, they do it in style.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pb...08/information


It's not all about money.

[Frigid]

Originally Posted by subdued123

P.s. Frigid is right - investment banking is where the big money is at (150k as a grad sound nice?) However the culture is by all accounts unsustainable and generally cut-throat. And when investment banks lay staff off, they do it in style.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pb...08/information


It's not all about money.

haha, depends on what value you place on things outside work. my friends are the cut-throat, burn-candle-at-both-end types...

but money's important. their packages dwarf my little law firm pay packet.

[Cookie182]

putting money aside, how common are random sexual relationships within big firm culture- does Boston Legal paint a fair picture??? lol

[subdued123]

Originally Posted by Frigid

haha, depends on what value you place on things outside work. my friends are the cut-throat, burn-candle-at-both-end types...

but money's important. their packages dwarf my little law firm pay packet.

ah, but that depends what "package" is important to you!

As for sexual liaisons in firms? No idea. It's certainly not everyone going hammer and tong at it on photocopying machines like they do on telly.

Large firms are quite sterile, subdued places. And given the cameras, it'd be silly, if not impossible.

that said, they're so full of young, good looking people!

[Frigid]

i believe, as a golden rule, never dip your pen in the company ink.

[Cookie182]

Originally Posted by Frigid

i believe, as a golden rule, never dip your pen in the company ink.

lol

yea a more sophisticated version of 'dont screw the crew'

i dunno why- must be television that painted this image of many hot young para legals and associates having it on with the partners between meetings.