While lawyers tend to be the face of the legal profession, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that makes their work possible. One of the key roles in most law firms, corporations and government agencies is the paralegal. …
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 …
It’s too much to expect that anyone stepping into a brand new position will do a letter-perfect job on day one.. but nothing builds dumb confidence quite like a college degree and zero experience! As a brand new paralegal, fresh …
Will Legal Software Soon Replace Paralegals? Each day moves us one step closer to life once existing only in the minds of sci-fi writers and conspiracy theorists dreaming of a world where robots rule, or in the nightmares of 21st …
Watching legal dramas on TV, you’d think the client or even the attorney sets the pace at which the wheels of justice turn. If you’re one of those paralegals who gets irritated every time you watch a complex court case …