If you wake up every morning with a very strong urge to log your sleep time toward some client or case account, chances are you work in legal services. For paralegals, hourly billing has become an ingrained habit. Accounting for …
How does an attorney sleep? Well, first he lies on one side, then he lies on the other. You’ve heard that one, along with a million other lawyer jokes that people have sprung on you from the moment you first …
Okay, sure, paralegals make plenty of mistakes. The difference is that you take care of your own mistakes—fall on your sword when you miss a filing, stay late and clean up contract language when you screw up a draft. You …
Becoming a paralegal says something about a person. No, not just “I like being verbally abused by lawyers all day.” It says you have some ambition, some drive. You like to work independently and you enjoy learning new things and …
From your first day on the job, one thing is going to become very clear to you as a new paralegal: despite all the hours you spent in class earning your degree, your education is really just starting. Changes in …