Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Should Your Paralegal Be Doing Payroll? #legalaccounting #lawfirms #paralegal #payroll

20 May 2026 · 1 min

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Two speakers argue paralegals shouldn't handle payroll. The risks: salary confidentiality breaches, complex deductions and bonuses, and distraction from deadline-driven legal work. Payroll belongs with the accounting team.

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I'm just going to throw it out there. What about payroll? Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, that's a whole can of worms in itself. You want your paralegal handling the payroll? And do you even want them knowing what everybody's salary is? Exactly. You know, and if you have court deadlines that you've got to get filings done for and responses done for and all those things that the paralegal supports you with, and then the payroll gets missed or somebody's insurance doesn't get deducted from their paycheck or whatever. There's a million different things that happen in payroll world. That the accounting team does for you that the paralegal definitely should not be involved with.
Or even if they're— say there's bonuses and compensation, right, quarterly, whatever it is.