Back-fill for various attorneys on leave - Anonymous employee Paragon Legal Group Employee Review

Thanks very much for the feedback, which is so helpful in us understanding what we are doing right and what we can do better. First, some clarification--our attorneys are W-2 employees of Paragon with full access to benefits, paid time off, MCLEs, and other perks. They are not contractors. In terms of level of work, it is indeed challenging given various circumstances and requirements of our attorneys to always find a perfect match between level of work and level of attorney. Paragon's differentiating factor is that we customize projects around an attorney's ideal requirements--how much they can be onsite, where, the maximum # of hours they want to work, etc. But of course there are always trade-offs, such that it is difficult to give all of our attorneys their ideal schedule and also their ideal work. I think the fact that our attorney retention rate is so high is an indicator that we are doing a pretty good job in this area. In addition, we work with a number of attorneys who have taken several years off from the practice of law, or who are trying to transition from one area of law to another. In those cases, there is a mutual understanding that the client may require the attorney to start-off at a lower level, but with the goal of bringing the attorney up as their skills develop, thereby giving the attorney a development opportunity they may have been very hard put to find somewhere else.