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UNICEF urges stronger efforts to eradicate child marriage and guarantee education for girls

JURIST

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause of child marriage.

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Taking Ownership Of Your In-House Legal Career

Above The Law

Its a common complaint among legal professionals — some argue that law schools should do more to bridge the gap, while others believe that new in-house lawyers must take the initiative to gain practical experience on their own. Who is responsible for providing that legal education? That could not be further from the truth.

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6 Ways to Expand Your Paralegal Education

Paralegal Bootcamp

If such a meme depicted a paralegal’s education, the visible tip of the iceberg would represent the formal, foundational education and essential working skills of that paralegal. . In addition, certified paralegals and paralegals who work in certain states are required to continually update their legal education. .

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Ongoing food crisis forces Haiti children to join criminal groups

JURIST

Families’ inability to provide for their children and the lack of legal opportunities to obtain necessities have made criminal groups these children’s “only sources of food, shelter and income.” Gang violence has also severely disrupted education.

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Wills, Trusts, and Estates: The Essentials of Wealth Management

Speaker: Vi Pham, Attorney at Law

Join Vi Pham, Attorney and educator, in this exclusive webinar that will leave you feeling brushed up and ready. This seminar meets the requirements of the NALA Certifying Board for continuing legal education credit required to maintain the CP (Certified Paralegal) credential. Tax effects of gifts, gifts to minors.

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Continuing Education for Paralegals – Sink or Swim?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Why Continuing Education is Necessary If you asked 100 paralegals who all went to 100 different paralegal certificate programs, they would all tell you the same thing: the schools taught us theory and terminology, but not the skills that were needed when on the first day of that first paralegal job. We’re never really done learning.

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SXSW’s Panel Educates Even When It Misses The Mark

Above The Law

Not many lawyers attend SXSW since its not a legal conference, but there are a few law-related sessions. As you might expect, it wasnt particularly well attended, but most of the audience consisted of lawyers or legal professionals with varying levels of experience with Gen AI. Now, Im no stranger to Gen AI or LLMs.

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Streamlining Your Success: How to Efficiently Scale Your Paralegal Career

Speaker: Jacqueline R. Jackson, J.D. - Litigation Paralegal at Morgan & Morgan

Join Jacqueline Jackson, JD, experienced litigation paralegal and impending lawyer, for an illuminating discussion on: Workflow efficiency Positioning yourself as your supervising attorney’s partner Becoming a marketable, one-person business in the legal industry Leveraging technology to become indispensable The Importance of continued education March (..)