Legal secretaries are currently in such short supply that many law firms across the UK have been forced to consider candidates with no experience of legal document drafting or other law firm-specific secretarial work.
The claim has been published in a salary survey of support staff commissioned by Angela Mortimer, a recruitment consultant, which in addition suggests that in job interviews, secretaries are increasingly demanding the opportunity to progress from a purely support role to a fee-earning position within the firm.
