A growing number of small-firm practitioners in Manhattan are getting along all day without secretaries. "At many firms, secretaries and associates get paid about the same. I can't send my secretary to court so I spend my money on an associate," says attorney Phyllis Solomon It seems at though the model of the ubiquitous secretary who helps keep the office running while the lawyers are at court or in meetings is becoming a thing of the past.
March 23, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
As a lawyer with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s, Phyllis C. Solomon turned to computers as a way to get around her office’s lack of secretarial help after 5 p.m.
Now, as a small-firm practitioner in Manhattan, Ms. Solomon’s technical knowledge has helped her join a growing number of New York lawyers outside big firms who are getting along all day without secretaries.
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