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How Using Latest Technology Can Lower Stress During Your Child Custody Lawsuit, by J. Benjamin Stevens, South Carolina Family Law Blog (with hat tip to Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips)

The Researching Paralegal

Family law takes a special breed. How often have you received a call from your client complaining that the soon-to-be-ex-spouse forgot the child’s teacher/parent conference, was late to pick up the child for a doctor appointment, or disagrees how to parent in a given situation?

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Dealing with Emotional Clients: 9 Strategies for Paralegals

Paralegal Bootcamp

Despite these issues, many paralegal training programs seem to overlook important paralegal soft skills , like navigating the emotions of clients from personal injury to family law and everything in between. Savannah Fisher graduated from the University of South Carolina. Meet the Author.

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

CourtTechBulletin

The State of North Dakota Courts have a "Legal Self-Help Center" available at: [link] Legal research, small claims court, district court civil, juvenile court, guardianships, and conservatorships, landlords and tenants, family law, and name changes are major topics of the website.

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On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting

LegalTalkNetwork

Professor Bryant Walker Smith: Assistant Professor of Law at University of South Carolina School of Law. Stephen Wu: Of Counsel at Silicon Valley Law Group. Listen here: ABA Annual Meeting 2016: Overcoming Adversity to Pursue a Career in Law. Laura Ruettgers: Special Counsel at Severson & Werson.

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Profile of a potential nominee: J. Michelle Childs

SCOTUSBlog

James Clyburn of South Carolina made a key endorsement, backing then-candidate Joe Biden in the state’s Democratic primary. Michelle Childs, a federal trial judge in South Carolina, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina. Share In 2020, Rep.