Can't really say much. I'm working from home tomorrow because the nanny needed the day off. My boss seemed fine with that, and hardly anybody is in the office this week anyway. So I brought home 5 depo transcripts to summarize. I thought I'd try to pick up some extra hours over the weekend, to make up for Christmas since I am contract and don't get holiday pay.
Last week I pulled all of the live pleadings for the 10 volumes of pleadings that we received with a case that just got transferred. One of the attorney's told me to have "a paralegal or somebody" index them. But nobody is in the office this week. And since I haven't been assigned a secretary or assistant, I don't really feel comfortable handing anyone projects anyway. So I did it myself because it needed to be done, and I wanted to have it ready by the time my supervising attorney returns.
I feel like I have to balance doing the jobs that an attorney is getting paid to do against appearing that I think I am "too good" to do certain tasks. I don't mind the scut work (I've had way crappier jobs), and my hourly rate is the same regardless, but I don't really think that the client is going to pay attorney rates for copying and indexing.
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It'll be interesting to see what they say about that. A lot of the baby attorneys at my firm do the scut work themselves because it's easier or faster and then they get in trouble because, as you said, the client doesn't want to pay attorney rates for that or see that time description in work entries. I'd probably have done the same, though. ;)
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