Paralegal Management/Administration
- Recruit, hire, and orient new and temporary paralegals.
- Conduct disciplinary actions and terminations.
- Provide continuing legal education by presenting in-house training programs and suggesting attendance at outside seminars.
- Assign projects to paralegals; coordinate work flow; monitor billable and non-billable hours.
- Prepare financial and statistical reports including a yearly budget for the paralegal program, periodic employee status report, work assignments, and profitability analyses.
- Participate in periodic and yearly salary reviews and evaluations.
- Participate in long-range planning of the firm, with a focus on paralegal staffing.
- Promote effective and maximum utilization of paralegals.
- Set paralegal salaries and billing rates.
- Perform other administrative duties, including:
- solving personnel problems;
- proposing new paralegal policies and administering existing firm policies;
- complying with labor laws; and
- acting as a liaison between the paralegals, attorneys, and the paralegal committee to promote effective utilization of paralegals.
