Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Payroll can be complex. Is your law firm equipped to handle it?

17 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Law firms often assign payroll to paralegals hired for other jobs, leading to costly mistakes. Sarah's expertise comes from her network, not her job title. Payroll involves complex tax and compliance rules that require real knowledge or outside help.

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And sometimes some crazy things happen in payroll where I've seen Sarah have to go through leaps and hurdles in unbelievable places. Thankfully, she's got all these deep connections and knowledge of it where most of the time someone on staff that's just, I shouldn't say just, but if they're a paralegal or they're, they, they were hired for another job and they got, you know, oh, you're the best paralegal here. You're gonna do the bookkeeping. They don't have a knowledge of that. That's one of the places when you hire anybody that they struggle with. I remember struggling with it. It's not uncommon to start out to do this work and then you really are afraid of payroll cuz it's tax, it's compliance. It's like, ugh.