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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Not likely gonna increase, I believe. As NQ, your values have not been proven and the partners or Senior Assocs still need to spend time to teach you. Law firms could have hired paralegals at a lower rate and they can provide work with similar quality as NQ folks.
Also, with the high turnover, why invest so much in an NQ chap? Law firm sees no benefits in increasing NQ pay and hence you can wait until 海枯石烂，天荒地老before your pay raise
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Paralegals are hit or miss. It's not like there are no poor quality paralegals also, and you act as though they aren't on the lookout for better prospects elsewhere. The good ones are good because they've stayed on long enough to amass the experience.
Plus the firm can't bill out for paralegal work at the same rate as the NQ.
Anyway, there's now a shortage of lawyers so good luck to firms finding the elusive 3-4PQE to do their work at a high quality if they don't change their compensation scale. Because junior lawyers are not sticking around and grateful merely to have a job now.