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6 Paralegal Tips + An Invitation to Join Me

Paralegal Bootcamp

This paralegal shared that they started in real estate and absolutely hated itthey were ready to abandon their paralegal career altogether. If you don’t believe me, ask any litigation paralegal with 30+ years of experience who didn’t embrace e-discovery technology when it first appeared in the late 90s.

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Senior legal counsel discusses how to align wellness and e-discovery

ABA Journal

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Amy Sellars, senior legal counsel for e-discovery and operations at the CBRE Group, a real estate company, and one of…

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Time to Seek an Alternative Career?

The Estrin Report

Estrin has guided the associations development and implementation of the eDiscovery and Litigation Support certification exams (first in the country) along with Pearson Publications , a $7 billion corporation specializing in certification exams and educational publishing.

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15 Alternative Paralegal Career Options

Paralegal Bootcamp

Maybe you’ve been a litigation paralegal for several years (or corporate paralegal, real estate paralegal…fill in any practice area here) and you’re looking for a career change. Are you a litigation paralegal who has been working with ediscovery tools? E-Discovery Boot Camp.

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Continuing Education for Paralegals – Sink or Swim?

Paralegal Bootcamp

The skills that you need as a litigation paralegal in a law firm are going to be completely different than the skills you need as a commercial real estate paralegal working in-house. This problem is not unique to the paralegal profession. It’s the same when lawyers graduate from law school.

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7 Habits of the Indispensable Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

A real estate paralegal has a closing checklist for the different types of closings that they’re working on. A litigation paralegal has a trial checklist , an eDiscovery production checklist, and dozens more. So I would probably look at an eDiscovery certification or an LPM certification (Legal Project Manager).

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Paralegal Project Management Tip

Paralegal Bootcamp

Example for a Real Estate or Transactional Paralegal. If you are a litigation paralegal who wants to incorporate project management principles into your e-discovery projects, you’ll want to read more about our E-discovery Paralegal Boot Camp. . In other words, mistakes happen.