Headcount ratios at small law firms.
The right shape of team is one of the questions a small firm rarely answers deliberately. Three ratios — fee-earners per partner, paralegals per fee-earner, support staff per fee-earner — give the realistic ranges by practice area, and reveal where the firm's actually unbalanced.
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