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The Confusion of Legal Assistant vs. Paralegal Titles

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That was the first association NALS, which back then stood for the National Association of Legal Secretaries. They changed it in 1999 to the National Association of Legal Support Professionals. But let’s go back to when they started in 1929 as an association for legal secretaries. Times are changing.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Burger even demanded that the magazine’s editors fire Beckwith for “espionage.”

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. In her interview with the Harvard Business Review after leaving the court, she said that “[i]t’s good if you can get agreement among your colleagues” when drafting opinions. In their unsigned opinion in Bush v.

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