Anonymous wrote:Youngish partner here.
I’ve given $100 (as a 1st year associate) up to $1000 (as a partner, to a very good secretary). That’s pretty much average in my experience.
However, a common topic among partners at almost every firm these days is that “post-Covid” secretaries, legal assistants and even new associates are universally AWFUL. Lazy, sloppy, entitled… and that’s when they bother to show up.
My current secretary is getting paid something like $80k to show up once a week and work maybe 4 hours per week. She does nothing. I’m not giving her cash on top of that.
My Christmas gift to her is being sufficiently indifferent about it to let her keep her job.
You aren’t alone here.
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