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AviK……….
You make problems that don’t exist in my practice. I live in small town America and by far the vast majority of my business (95%+) is with non-Jews. By the time I’m dealing with the will of a deceased Jew it is far too late to consider the question of whether or not it is halachic. The questions before a member of the bar are about it’s validity and legality according to the laws of the state.
My juniors are not employees, they are independent contractors who rent desk space and in exchange for use of the office, secretarial and paralegal staff, supplies and utilities pay us a percentage of their billings. I do not charge them a referral fee for cases I send their way. They do types of work I don’t care to do and it is a service to our clients to have this arrangement.
For example: the grandson of a trust client gets a speeding ticket and needs to be represented in court…not something that I or my family members get involved with…have the juniors handle it and Trust client is happy not to have to search for another attorney. We don’t touch Personal Injury cases. A divorce client has a slip and fall or car accident and calls us, the only attorneys he/she has used as an adult…again the juniors may handle it (if they feel capable and want the case…sometimes they don’t want to finance the costs of a PI case) and refer the case to a specialist.