On 9/25/06, Steve Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I started off as a file clerk in a law firm in Seattle. It was a branch
> office of a Portland, OR based firm.
>
> My responsibilities were:
>
> There was a line in the job description that said "other duties as
> assigned".



I was a bit surprised by this question initially, seeing as with most
"classic" file clerk positions, the primary duties are:


   - Ability to lift 35 pounds repetitively
   - Ability to work under direction
   - Other duties, as assigned

... and PLEASE understand, I don't mean this in a derogatory manner in any
way.

I understand in Law Firms, this tends to be a bit different, but the
extensive lists provided by the initial poster (Irene) and the respondent
(Steve) indicate that these specific duties seem to be vastly different from
firm to firm, based in part on:


   - size of staff
   - division of effort
   - centralized versus decentralized filing systems
   - level of skill and experience
   - use of in-house versus vended services
   - span of management control


...and any number of other factors far to wide to categorize into a simple
"pick list" of duties to position levels and ratios of staff to
professionals in a firm.

Am I correct in understanding this is peculiar to Law Firms and the Legal
environment?  And I'm asking this for a very specific reason... much of the
work we did on the first two phases of the ARMA RIM Competencies Project
(which is still a work in progress) did not go into this level of detail
when it came to the types of work being performed by entry level
practitioners, nor did it detail out the aspects of work called out here in
this form/format.

And if this is what is being looked for at this, and higher levels, of RIM
staff in a Legal Environment, has ANYONE ever considered putting together
the skill set and desired/required competencies for Legal RIM staff?

Larry


-- 
Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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