It’s even worse for paralegals/legal assistants. Because of the economy, a lot of lawyers just do their own work.
And secretaries. I was a legal secretary till I became sick in 2008. I wanted to go back to work, but the jobs aren’t there. My last employer had said it would take me back, but by the time I was ready to return, everything had changed. The firm no longer has a secretary for 1 or 2 attorneys. Now it has one secretary for a whole department of maybe 6 or more attorneys. Thanks to all those electronic devices, there really isn’t enough work for that many secretaries.