Legal Network prepares its pricing based on a study of the prevailing wages for full-time personnel in the marketplace performing comparable work. This rate is affected by factors such as the duration of the project, the type of work involved, the number of attorneys hired, and the level of expertise the particular attorney has. In Western Pennsylvania, the answer is clearly no. In fact, national companies often contact Legal Network to assist with finding placements in Western Pennsylvania. With over 1,200 screened legal professionals in our database and constantly growing, there is no other agency able to consistently find temporary legal personnel in this area.
Some national companies are only in three markets.
The truth of the matter is each market is different even for national companies. In keeping with a lawyer's duty to a client, the ABA Formal Opinion 88-356, Temporary Lawyers advises that a temporary lawyer may not work simultaneously on matters for clients of different firms if the representation of each is directly adverse to the other, or if they have differing interests. Legal Network advises all users of contract lawyers to carefully review conflict of interest issues with temporary lawyers prior to agreeing to the engagement, in addition to screening temporary lawyers from matters unrelated to their assignments. Hiring firms should also require all lawyers, temporary and permanent, to sign conflict check forms upon every new representation in order to identify potential conflicts before a project is started. Legal Network also reviews the ABA Formal Opinion with all attorneys prior to sending anyone out on a client interview.