I am a lawyer who employs a paralegal who is a suspended attorney. I want to bill the client for the time. I bill $90 per hour for the paralegal’s time, but I only pay the paralegal $50 per hour. Can I do that, or is that misleading?
The question is an interesting one. Obviously, an attorney has a right to bill for paralegal services whether the paralegal is a suspended or disbarred lawyer or a person who is trained as a paralegal but has never gone to law school. Clearly, when one bills for a paralegal’s time, it has to be a reasonable rate. One should not bill the paralegal at the same hourly rate he or she might bill an attorney.
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