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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are his legal assistant and secretary shared with 2+ more people? If not, I'd agree with the others that the amount is actually low. [/quote]

Op - yes I believe his secretary and legal assistant support 8-10 people. So it’s not a one on one sort of support.

I am not sure what they do for him. He does his own time that I do know.

Anyway I will take away from this thread that is an appropriate amount for a shared secretary and legal assistant. [/quote]

"Shared" is a tricky concept. I posted above that I gave $500 to my secretary as a first-year associate in 2005. I probably occupied about 2% of her time, if that. She was "shared" by many attorneys, but I think one partner took at least 75% of her time and was very demanding. Giving $500 did seem strange to me (again, this was 2005, and my total comp was $135K), but I was afraid of looking cheap. In an ideal world, we would have given gifts in proportion to the amount of her time that we occupied, but sadly I don't think that's really the way it works.[/quote]

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