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What is a Public Defense Paralegal?

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The long list includes complaints, subpoenas, interrogatories, deposition notices, pretrial orders, and legal briefs with various parties. This is why paralegal training in the skill of written communication is essential. A Protector.

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10 WFH Paralegal Technology Tools

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An immigration paralegal team can, for example, use these subcategories to assign teams to the many different types of visas and procedures. For example, to avoid any filings in person or by paper during the pandemic, the immigration courts across the country allowed to temporarily file via email [1]. Edit PDF files with ease.

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Why Value-Based Pricing Is Here To Stay

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Task-based This structure is usually a fixed fee for a specific task and is often seen in patent prosecution or immigration law. Since hours worked is not synonymous with value delivered, consider other value-centric metrics such as dollars per document, dollars per deposition, or dollars per motion.

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NetDocuments’ AI-Driven PatternBuilder MAX Is Now Generally Available; Comes with Nine Apps for Common Legal Use Cases

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At the time, I wrote about how one immigration lawyer had used it to dramatically shortcut the time-consuming process of drafting O-1 visa petitions. Users can generate a general summary or apply a summary template for specialized use cases, such as depositions or loan agreements.

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Texas Supreme Court blocks deposition of state attorney general in whistleblower lawsuit

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The Texas Supreme Court held Friday that state Attorney General Ken Paxton can avoid deposition in a years-long lawsuit brought against him by former employees since his office no longer contests the factual allegations of the suit. Under the amended answer, Paxton filed a motion with the trial court to avoid deposition.

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Transitioning to Litigation from Another Practice Area

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However, if you are a litigation paralegal who circled those three things on the left side of your list, moving into estate planning or immigration might help you reduce them. I can tell you for certain, that if you want to transfer over to your litigation department, you will not see a reduction in any of those three things!

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NetDocuments Lays Out Plans for Series of ‘ndMAX’ Generative AI Products and Releases the First, For Customizing Document Automation in PatternBuilder

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Consider this scenario: You are an immigration lawyer representing a hospital seeking to bring a talented surgeon to the United States under an O-1 nonimmigrant visa — a visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities in the sciences, arts and other fields. A second coming soon is Extract MAX, to extract information from content.