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Paving Your Way: Overcoming Obstacles to Land Your Dream Paralegal Job

Paralegal Bootcamp

Finding Your Place Typically, you start as a legal assistant or legal secretary. Once you have the education, training, and years of experience as a legal assistant, you can leverage yourself into the paralegal position you’ve always wanted and land your dream paralegal job. LEARN MORE 3.

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Paralegal Roles in Other Countries

Paralegal Bootcamp

Paralegals – Depending on the role, and their jurisdiction (as I mentioned before) a paralegal can represent someone in court, draft complex legal documents (under the supervision of a lawyer) perform research, and many other substantial tasks. Education/Certification.

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How to Manage Your Legal Professional Team

MyCase

Smaller law firms may reach maximum efficiency with one or two associates per equity partner, while large firms may prefer three or more per partner. . Paralegals and Legal Secretaries . Legal secretaries perform a similarly valuable role. A legal secretary may complete the following tasks. .

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How to Manage Your Legal Professional Team

MyCase

Smaller law firms may reach maximum efficiency with one or two associates per equity partner, while large firms may prefer three or more per partner. . Paralegals and Legal Secretaries . Legal secretaries perform a similarly valuable role. A legal secretary may complete the following tasks. .

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4 Hispanic Lawyers Who Are Leading Historic Change in Law

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After working as an accountant, getting married, and having two daughters, Chief Justice Contreras received her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from theUniversity of Houston Law Center in 1990. She went on to manage a law office in San Antonio, make partner at a civil trial firm, and then open her own mediation practice.

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If Secretaries want to be taken Seriously.

LegalSecretariesRock

It occurred to me while riding the train into work this morning that perhaps legal secretaries are often not taken as serious professionals by attorneys because they don't always take each other seriously. Combine that with the basic skills necessary to work in a law office and you get productivity and a happier environment.

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What is a Legal Assistant? Their Roles and Duties Explained

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As stated in the ABA’s definition, there is often some overlap between legal assistants and paralegals. Because they aren’t required to have any education or background in law, they don’t assist a lawyer with specific legal tasks. What are a Legal Assistant’s Duties?