Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 21, 2022

I currently work for a reputable litigation firm that specializes in bankruptcy, business disputes, real estate, and family law. It is mostly litigation, and it is always busy at my firm! Every day looks a little different for me, depending on how busy our week is, but here is a day in the life of a litigation paralegal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. Whether you’re Elon Musk or John G.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

That may come in the form of legal secretaries, runners, file clerks, copy people, or even assistants whose job it is to schedule, docket, or do document management. I hear about the low incoming wages for new legal assistants, and yes, someone at Chick-Fil-A might indeed make a larger hourly wage than a new, incoming paralegal.

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SimplyLawJobs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I am a legal assistant working at a multi-claimant legal US firm specialising in commercial, employment and consumer class action litigation. As I work on group litigation cases, I work with large volumes of data in my day-to-day job. Day in the life of a legal assistant. As with any.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 13, 2024

This linguistic relic perpetuates a caste system within legal support roles, unjustly positioning certain professionals as secondary to the omnipotent “lawyer” The use of “non-lawyer” is not merely a matter of semantics; it’s a symptom of a broader issue within the legal profession.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

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. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Federal Government 5%.

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Above The Law

MARCH 17, 2025

In Season 10, Episode 4 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self ,” I had the privilege of speaking with Sonja Ebron, the co-founder and CEO of Courtroom5. Her platform empowers pro se litigants to navigate the labyrinth of civil litigation. But life had other plans, landing her in court as a self-represented litigant.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

As society shifts and the need for lawyers to work faster and smarter grows, it becomes increasingly important that lawyers are able to nurture partnerships with freelance paralegals and legal assistants. For one, legal assistants focus solely on administrative work, clearing up time for lawyers to focus on other tasks.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. Assistant Juridique (Legal Assistant): Legal assistants in France perform similar duties to that of legal assistants in the USA, but they don’t necessarily work for law firms.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Litigation Paralegal Career Accelerator is a framework that I developed a while ago when I was outlining the curriculum for the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp program. They taught me in school how to write a legal research memo using the IRAC method. Before I tell you WHAT it is, let me tell you why. But they didn’t.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2024

Leecia Welch, deputy litigation director at Children’s Rights, which represents children in the case, said Friday’s filing “leaves these children at risk of harm without anyone to look after them.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As Ive been developing this new course, its bringing back some memories when back in 2010 I was telling litigation paralegals they needed to get up to speed on eDiscovery. For those who are new listeners and dont know what that means Lets say that youre a litigation paralegal working in a law firm that barely ever goes to trial.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you are a paralegal, legal assistant or legal professional without a manager title, you must be paid overtime, even if it’s only for 15 minutes. When you hear things such as “just need a good trial lawyer or paralegal” or “typical legal assistant responsibilities”, a red flag should go up immediately.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2021

They don’t all have to do with the legal profession because paralegal career development doesn’t just mean gaining more knowledge and skills about your particular practice area. The World’s First AI Legal Assistant. Litigation paralegals and personal injury paralegals will find this TED Talk valuable.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 17, 2022

In doing so, you become a better version of yourself, a better paralegal, legal assistant, or whatever the role you may hold. When I was a litigation paralegal, I attended one of the annual LAPA (Los Angeles Paralegal Association) October Conferences. Researcher and Executive Assistant at Estrin Legal Staffing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This program is only available to paralegals, legal assistants, and other non-attorney legal support professionals. Ann Pearson is the Founder of the Paralegal Boot Camp, specializing in training for paralegals that focuses on the important paralegal skills to become an indispensable member of the legal team.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, managers, marketing, IT, accounting – all legal professionals actually have the upper hand in this market. . For the first time ever, employers are giving high hiring bonuses to paralegals and other legal professionals – previously unheard of. by Cher Estrin.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

I’ve mentioned in previous articles that 43 years ago, the profession of “paralegals” and “legal assistants” didn’t really exist. Legal secretaries absorbed some of what is now considered paralegal responsibilities. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? At least it hasn’t been boring.

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The Estrin Report

JUNE 25, 2020

Take a look: Personal Injury Litigation Paralegal - Must have at least 2 yrs. Legal Assistant - Personal Injury Firm - Must speak fluent Spanish Intake Paralegal - Personal Injury Firm - Must speak fluent Spanish Receptionist - Must speak fluent Spanish Class Action Attorneys - work remotely - Must have Class Action exp.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The firm had been seeking a litigation paralegal for months. When I first received their search, the hiring requirements included 5-10 years of litigation paralegal experience, actual trial experience, ability to handle legal research, drafting and a whole host of other higher-level assignments. Must have gone to trial.”

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LawSites

JULY 15, 2024

In a further expansion of the CoCounsel AI legal assistant it acquired last year through its purchase of Casetext, Thomson Reuters today unveiled CoCounsel Drafting, a document drafting tool that works within Microsoft Word and that leverages both the generative AI capabilities of CoCounsel and the practical content of Practical Law.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 30, 2023

As a litigation paralegal the gravity of correct documents, order, and cadence plays toward a successful presentation for the attorney. As a trial attorney and litigator for over 30 years, it is clear that an attorney has to actively listen to their client and determine what is important to achieve an ideal outcome.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2021

Many litigants had failed to follow the correct procedure and as a result, didn’t get their day in court. This is how People Clerk and my involvement in legal tech came about. People Clerk helps litigants in California navigate the small claims court process. Self-represented litigants were left in the dark.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 8, 2022

For instance, commercial litigation paralegals can benefit from CLEs explaining the methods of determining the appropriate type of business organization or drafting contracts. Working on pro bono cases or projects with colleagues can introduce paralegals to areas of the law outside their usual legal discipline.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since the legal profession –especially litigation and real estate with their looming limitation periods and closing dates – is very time sensitive, showing your employer that you have the propensity to miss deadlines is something you want to try and avoid as much as possible. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Can you help?

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Have you ever been asked to give a presentation to other paralegals or legal assistants? You know, one of those CLE companies calls you or reaches out on LinkedIn and says we would love to have you do a training session on a litigation or real estate topic. Why EVERY Litigation Paralegal Should be a MASTER in eDiscovery.

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LawSites

JUNE 26, 2023

.” Earlier this year, it launched CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Controlling and tracking litigation costs, from depositions to expert witness fees, needs careful oversight to keep client budgets intact and to ensure profitability. Modern tools and techniques are making this process more efficient and accurate , giving attorneys a clear financial picture at every stage of litigation.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Artificial Intelligence: The Legal Assistant of the Future Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way legal firms approach efficiency. it's important to remember that complex litigation produces vast amounts of data.

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Patently O

MAY 4, 2021

In civil litigation discovery requests are generally guided by three pillars: privilege, relevance, and proportionality. Although the prior agreements had been shared between litigating parties, with the settlement agreement the parties became unified (at least with regard to the agreement) and the result is “common interest privilege.”

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2023

In fact, with its recent launch of CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model, it has become the generative AI company to beat in the legal market. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re a personal injury paralegal, litigation paralegal, or explored other paralegal career options, having a process for taking care of every single file that gets handed to you is essential to ensure that nothing is missed and more importantly nothing gets lost. THE ACTUAL PATH.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding AI legal assistants. But they will streamline tedious elements of legal work and free up your time for strategy and counseling clients. Are they coming for your job?

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. i4J will provide the MDLA training as an online, modular, bilingual curriculum.

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