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how much do legal clerks make

  • 30-09-2011 12:10pm
    #1
    ANSI
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    What would his salary have been?


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  • #2
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    ANSI wrote: »
    What would his salary have been?

    12 times his monthly gross pay.


  • #3
    ANSI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭ANSI


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    12 times his monthly gross pay.
    very funny not:rolleyes:


  • #4
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Well, a solicitor I know, told me she was (was is the operative word) 36k. That was 2007 - she said at the time she was expecting she would have to pay her clerk more. (this is at a time when 19 year old plasterers were earning 70k)

    Since that time, lots of things have happened.

    And that solicitor, I haven't spoken to her in a while, her sister tells me "she's just getting back on her feet" - she's probably doing her clerking....cleaning.....coffee etc etc

    It used to be one of those jobs, that was surprisingly badly paid.


  • #5
    ANSI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭ANSI


    Thanks for reply
    krd wrote: »
    "she's just getting back on her feet" - she's probably doing her clerking....cleaning.....coffee etc etc
    .
    from what?


  • #6
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    ANSI wrote: »
    Thanks for replyfrom what?


    Well. The total and utter collapse of her business. Clients getting into "financial difficulties". Her landlord going into NAMA, and her being give a few days notice to clear her office. The calamities of contemporary Ireland.


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  • #7
    Contra Proferentem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭Contra Proferentem


    When I was doing a Legal Studies Higher Cert it was said by one of our lecturers who was a working solicitor that it would generally be around 30-36,000 even though in some cases the solicitor is highly reliant on the Clerk/Legal Executive to carry out the mundane tasks that would otherwise see the practice fall into decline.

    Obviously that's not an excuse in anyway for this guy's crimes, but certainly there were plenty of decent people who went on to get employment in the sector after completing the Higher Cert, and who unlike many who get work in an office after their Leaving Cert, those who completed the course, in addition to office skills and court procedure, had covered topics like Criminal, Constitutional, Tort, Land to Level 8 standard.


  • #8
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    In the case of an employee of a legal firm ( a non-solicitor ) embezzling client funds would the firms PII cover such a situation ?


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