Yeah, Doug, thanks for that. My friend has a BA in Art History, then had to complete 2 or 3 years in legal studies before she was an offical paralegal.

She could and did do damn near everything her lawyer did and, when he decided to take a 3 week vacation with no cell phone, she did a bit more. Everyone knew she was doing ALL of his work, except what he actually had to do in court and even then she was feeding him his lines. And, for that, because of some misguided agreement in an assoc. of paralegals and because the great state of Wyoming is a right to work state, she got paid less than $24,000 per year, while he took home hundred of thousands and only had a couple of years more schooling over her, along with doing a third of the work she did.

Not ALL lawyers are that way, but I am very grateful she is no longer working for him.

kat