How much should a legal secretary make per month?
Asked by kookoo4travel
Say it is just the legal secretary and the attorney, no other people running the law firm. How much should that secretary make per month? She does all the work, handles all the cases, deals with the attorney's b.s. and drama, how much is that secretary worth being paid per month?

Best Answer:
$5,000 per month in California. $60K per year. For an experienced legal secretary. Seeing as how you have to have experience to BE a legal secretary, that would be a given. If someone is willing to train you, then expect to earn a lot less until you know how to create pleadings, propound discovery, and understand law and motion procedures, court filings, electronic filing, calendaring, and the different rules of court for federal, state, and appellate courts. In a large law firm, salaries for senior litigation secretaries can range to $75K or higher.

Depends where you live and how long you've worked there. You can probably find stats on this online somewhere if you look. I'm sure the range is huge depending on the circumstances.
Answered by RayeKaye