One of our legal assistants has repeatedly complained about me to my boss, and each time my boss has met with me about it. The first complaint was because I made a copy of a document and wrote notes on the copy in pencil. The second was because I wrote a note in pencil on a manila folder. Most recently, she complained because I was unable to have someone served when they did not appear in court to be served. I haven't been in trouble for anything else. What would you do in my situation?

Lateral/Conflicts question— my spouse is lateraling to a new firm. This is the first time either one of us has lateraled as we’ve been at our firms since law school so dumb question. He’s been coordinating everything from his personal computer so far. For purposes of filling out the conflicts questionnaire, he’s worried that sending the filled out form containing client data over his personal computer might constitute mishandling of client info for ethical purposes— more in comments

I have noticed that some paralegals and staff are rude to junior lawyers. Why is this the case?Even those really good at their work, they basically try to tell them that they don't take orders from them, but there is a hierarchy and really, they do. Why? what is their issue with junior lawyers?

New bee here. How do you guys handle this long hours work mode? I feel like it’s not sustainable for me.

Why do we pay paralegals so little? A senior associate completely miscalculated a statutory deadline, and our lead paralegal caught it at 4:30 PM on the final day, staying late on a Friday to fix the caption and get it over the line. If she hadn't been paying attention, the firm would be facing a massive malpractice suit, yet she makes less than the associate who didn't even know what month it was.