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Mentoring New Legal Assistants

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Many firms use software to manage cases such as Filevine, Clio, or MyCase. These case management tools are extremely helpful in keeping your client information, deadlines, and other important facts in one location. I use a pre-litigation checklist for new legal assistants in our personal injury practice.

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The Pros and Cons of Going Solo vs. Large Firm

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That may come in the form of legal secretaries, runners, file clerks, copy people, or even assistants whose job it is to schedule, docket, or do document management. These numbers exclude all legal secretaries and administrative assistants. Federal jobs don’t lag too far behind. That will serve you best in the end.

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What This Paralegal Has Learned After Working With Attorneys for 40 Years

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I’ve mentioned in previous articles that 43 years ago, the profession of “paralegals” and “legal assistants” didn’t really exist. Legal secretaries absorbed some of what is now considered paralegal responsibilities. Value your legal team. Paralegal Lessons Learned From Years of Case Management.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

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In fact, what you see in most firms going forward is they have eliminated the legal secretary title and replaced it with a legal assistant title. The attorneys are usually thinking about the big picture and how to win the case rather than the best way to organize the discovery responses for easy retrieval.