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Tips for Managing Your Personal Injury Cases

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You just landed your first paralegal job at a local personal injury firm. It’s not going to be easy, but these tips for managing your personal injury cases will make it doable. If the law firm accepted the case before the statute of limitations period expired, it could result in a finding of legal malpractice.

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9 Ways to Succeed as a Personal Injury Paralegal

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A personal injury paralegal’s role can vary greatly depending on the business model and staffing model of the law firm. Some personal injury law firms prefer to separate the paralegal job functions into departments that focus on either the pre-litigation phase of a personal injury claim and then hand off the file to a litigation paralegal.

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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

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Depending on whether or not your personal injury law firm has specific injury claims that they specialize in, knowing those medical terms will be vital to your paralegal job duties. Understand Medical Terminology. Please read this article we wrote about different roles in a personal injury law firm.

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Paralegal Career Choice: Public Service or Private Practice

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In summation, while both public service and private paralegal jobs have their advantages and disadvantages, the key is finding a subject area of the law that you are passionate about and becoming a master of your craft. Paralegal career choice: ask yourself, What is your why?

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What is a Litigation Paralegal?

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A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations.

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Use This 3-Step Plan for Litigation Paralegals to Accelerate Your Career in 2024

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One of the audience members was a paralegal who asked the founder of that startup company, “Do you see the technology that you’re creating and that other technology companies are creating eventually taking away paralegal jobs?” Just go take a look and search for litigation paralegal jobs.

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3 Traits of a Rockstar Paralegal

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Here’s what other paralegals are saying about the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp: Life-Changing Knowledge ! This course is what every paralegal job induction week should look like. Taking this class has been helpful in my start as a paralegal. When I started the class, I just started a new job.

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