Given minimal legal work
In our latest Career Conundrum, a paralegal shares that she feels more like a personal assistant — but with a potential training contract on the horizon, should she stick it out?
“Hello Legal Cheek. I joined a firm about 8 months ago as a conveyancing paralegal with the ‘promise’ of a training contract subject to performance. Unfortunately, my experience hasn’t been great so far as I feel more like the firm PA than a paralegal (no disrespect to PAs, of course, it’s just not what I signed up for). My exposure to legal work has been pretty minimal with most of my time spent answering phones, arranging meetings, fetching coffees/organising the lunch run and doing the ‘life admin’ for the partners. I worry that the firm might be stringing me along regarding the training contract and I don’t really know what to do. Please help!”
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