What is a fee earner in a solicitors?

Put simply, a fee earner is a member of staff who directly generates income for the firm. This means that fee earners are usually qualified lawyers such as barristers, solicitors, or chartered legal executives. Some paralegals are fee earners too as, depending on their role, their work might be charged to the client.

What is a Grade B fee earner?

The current grades of fee earner are: Grade A Solicitors and Fellows with over eight years’ PQE, including at least eight years’ litigation experience. Grade B Solicitors and Fellows with over four years’ PQE, including at least four litigation experience.

What is a grade C fee earner?

A Grade C fee earner is defined as: “Other solicitors and legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience”. Clerks without the equivalent experience of legal executives will be treated as being in the bottom grade of fee earner ie. trainee solicitors and fee earners of equivalent experience [Grade D].”

What is a non fee earner?

Definitions of non-fee earner employees who do not produce revenue for the employer by charging clients.

What are the duties of a fee earner?

A fee earner is defined as a lawyer who takes on cases or instructions and charges a client a fee to do so. This is a common term in the United Kingdom, but not often used in the United States. The fee-earner works directly with clients of the law firm in order to resolve the client’s legal problems.

Who are non fee earners in a law firm?

Non-fee earners in a law firm include attorneys (also called solicitors) who provide professional support for other lawyers in the firm, or support staff people, such as clerks, research assistants and anyone else who assists in the running of the firm but does not charge a case fee for doing so.

How is a fee earner remunerated in the UK?

Work is remunerated according to time spent by a fee earner at the relevant hourly rate. The rates are set by the Lord Chancellor in the Remuneration Regulations.

When is a fee payable to a litigator?

(2) In any case to which this paragraph applies, a fee (“the basic consideration fee”) is payable to a litigator in respect of the consideration of unused material which corresponds to the grade of the litigator concerned specified in the table following this sub-paragraph, whether or not such consideration has actually occurred.