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Paving Your Way: Overcoming Obstacles to Land Your Dream Paralegal Job

Paralegal Bootcamp

Finding Your Place Typically, you start as a legal assistant or legal secretary. Once you have the education, training, and years of experience as a legal assistant, you can leverage yourself into the paralegal position you’ve always wanted and land your dream paralegal job.

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Paralegal Roles in Other Countries

Paralegal Bootcamp

Here’s a breakdown of what the paralegal profession looks like in the country famous for its wines and cheeses: Secrétaire Juridique (Legal Secretary): These legal professionals are responsible for more administrative tasks such as filing paperwork, receiving client intake forms, drafting letters and demand packages , and less substantial tasks.

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Does Anyone Enjoy Assembling an Appellate Brief Appendix? | Podcast

TypeLaw Briefing Insights

The challenge of creating an appendix One of the biggest, and most annoying briefing challenges for any appellate attorney is assembling an appendix. One thing we talked about is how AI automation is helping legal professionals save time and focus their efforts on what really counts.

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What IS a paralegal, exactly?

LexBlog

I think a shorter list is what one is not, but in summary, paralegals provide day to day support by assisting attorneys, law offices, or other various agencies conducting research, drafting legal documents, and handling cases. Paralegals are an attorney’s right-hand person. What a paralegal is NOT.

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Why Writing Skills are Necessary for Paralegals

Paralegal Mentor

Paralegals and paralegal students often have difficulty developing their writing skills to the level expected in the legal industry. Legal professionals rely heavily on both verbal and written communication, so writing skills are essential for both lawyers, paralegals, and legal secretaries.

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Top 5 best and worst things about being a paralegal

LexBlog

One of the most unique aspects of being a paralegal or legal secretary is that no day will be the same. As a paralegal your duties will vary from contacting witnesses, preparing for trials or depositions, even gearing up to go to trial yourself to assist the attorneys. Being a paralegal means that you are a jack of all trades.

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Strategies for Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Law Firm

Lawfecta

Recruitment is often limited to the top-tier law schools, yet these schools are behind the curve in diversity because of the prohibitive cost of attending them. So how can you improve your diversity if you only hire from those schools? •Create, fund, and support Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Black and POC employees.