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Leaving Your Firm? Aim for a Joint Notice to Clients

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99-414 for more details and suggestions on drafting the notice to clients. Be sure to examine your own jurisdiction’s rules, ethics opinions, and case law, and look for any templates that may help you draft your notice. Again, see ABA Formal Op. Conclusion. It sounds like you’re heading in the right direction.

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Must-Have Skills for a Successful Paralegal Career

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Its not just about sending polite emails or drafting neat letters, though those matter too. They are often the ones testing out new eFiling systems or digital docket trackers. For deeper insights into paralegal standards, the American Bar Association offers a wealth of guidelines that can help you stay current. Is it hard work?

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Top 7 Tips for Litigation Paralegals in 2024

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eFiling, the application that allows you to electronically file your pleadings, motions, briefs, and other court filings. Hopefully, they covered eFiling in your technology class in your paralegal certificate program. Back in the old days, there was no such thing as electronic filing.

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Customs and Trade News Weekly Snapshot

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The FDA issued draft guidance to clarify how the agency evaluates real-world data (RWD) to determine whether they are of sufficient quality for generating real-world evidence (RWE) that can be used in FDA regulatory decision-making for medical devices. This draft guidance also proposes expanded recommendations to the 2017 guidance.

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64 Key Lawyer Statistics to Guide Your Firm in 2025

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The top three uses for generative AI in 2023 were brainstorming (58%), drafting correspondence (55%), and general research (46%). 2024 Legal Industry Trends Report ) 91% of law firms had the ability to eFile in 2023. Choosing the right legal technology providers is especially crucial to ensure easy adoption and compliance.

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A Law Clerk’s Advice for Communicating During the Pandemic

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Once a response to a lengthy e-mail is decided upon, it usually goes back to the law clerk or the secretary for drafting. That way you can link through the court’s efiling system directly to the exhibit, rather than hope that the judge or law clerk are using the same research system that you are. Get Colorful With Exhibits.

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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

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In particular, Lawson cites, “downloading forms from databases, saving Word documents as efile-ready PDFs, or inserting a section symbol can slow their progress even while large firms are deploying artificial intelligence to streamline ediscovery workflows.” The bar exam can also include creating a table of authorities or a table of contents.