if you mean an administrative type person, their work usually isn't billed to the client, it's typically included in the attorney's fees.
if you mean a law clerk, it depends on the office.
However, not all lawyers have assistants for that type of thing. I work in a small 3-person office and there are only 2 of us there at any point in time. So it's basically the attorney and me (her law clerk). My time gets billed to the client if I'm working on a client matter. There *is* no administrative assistant in this situation. And before I started a few weeks ago, it was just the attorney -- not even any law clerks there. So if there was a copy job to be done, it was being done by the attorney.
But try this one on: same situation except the non-copy work is also for you. Would you want to be billed for those same hours twice simply because the copying was "another job"?
Consider that attorneys typically bill around $250-$400 per hour for their work. |
