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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a litigation attorney at a small firm and definitely agree you should go the paralegal route. But make sure you’re serious. No one wants to hire you to pursue your hobby. You need to be committed to working in the job and accepting that if you are the paralegal then you aren’t the lawyer. Some people can have an inferiority complex about that, which is silly because a talented paralegal is worth their weight in gold. [/quote]

Hm. I  am not the OP, but also looking for a change. I worry that if I were in the position of being a good paralegal, I wouldn't have an "inferiority complex", but might be resentful if I felt I were doing the lion's share of the attorney's work, while he got the lion's share of the money. 
     When you have a talented paralegal, do you feel that his/her compensation reflects his/her weight in gold?[/quote]

When I worked at a smaller firm, the talented paralegals were paid more than the new associates and the paralegals literally walked on water. They made 6 figures (and this was in the Midwest too). This was in patent law though, and it took them years to develop the skill set they had-it’s a hard area of the law to learn all the intricacies and they would have been almost impossible to replace.[/quote]

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