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Paralegal Career Choice: Public Service or Private Practice

Paralegal Bootcamp

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. Local government, excluding education and hospitals 4%.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 64: Project Destination

ALPS

But I would anticipate there are probably a fairly significant portion of people on the reservations that do not have access in terms to legal services. Her practice focused on firearm and felony narcotics prosecution in state and federal court. Is part of the intention or desire of the program to meet that need as well?

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10 Inspiring Organizations that Help the Incarcerated and Families Impacted by Incarceration

Blackstone Career Institute

Below is a small sample of inspiring organizations that are working to help the incarcerated or their families in some way, whether through research, advocacy, training programs, legal services, or other forms of support: Innocence Project The Innocence Project fights for the innocent, working to stop wrongful convictions.

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Three Wisconsin county prosecutors decline to pursue felony charges against Trump fundraising committee and Republican lawmaker

JURIST

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission announced in a memo Friday that the Wisconsin county prosecutors of Chippewa, Florence and Langlade Counties have declined to pursue felony charges for conspiring to evade campaign finance laws against the fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and Wisconsin state Rep.

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Biden’s Executive Order Could Help in Immigration, Eviction Cases

The Crime Report

The order also reestablishes the DOJ Office for Access to Justice, which was eliminated by the Trump administration, and revives the White House’s Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable after four years of dormancy.

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Bragg’s Legal Slurpee: The Trump Indictment is Designed for Instant Satisfaction Without Substance

JonathanTurley

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. He just filed the first charges against a former president and refused to specify the basis for the felonies.

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Will You Survive? How Trump’s Upheaval is Reshaping Your Legal Career”

The Estrin Report

In one of only four cases to go to trial, Trump was convicted in New York state court of 34 felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star. Corporate demand is likely to push an even larger boost of needed legal services. Paralegals and legal analysts may have expanded workload.

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