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What Not To Say in a Paralegal Job Interview

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Here are a few: The attorney I worked for had a difficult personality. The office manager played favorites with certain paralegals, and it was terrible for morale. There was a lot of office drama that I tried to stay out of. I didn’t agree with my supervisor’s management style.

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Paralegal Professional Development – Tips for New Paralegals

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I had nearly given up hope when I got my first job in July of 2020 and was hired remotely in personal injury. Office management. In November of 2019, I began applying for jobs before finishing the program, but without experience directly in a law firm setting (as well as COVID), it was not easy. What would I do?

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Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure Program Improved Access To Justice For Tort Victims And Possibly Large Companies

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And some of these firms based on their name alone suggests that they handle personal injury or product liability cases. Of the few ABS firms that have posted their websites, most are injury firms. Why are a large number of injury firms operating as an ABS?

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In A First For A State Bar, Florida To Provide All Members With Free Trust Accounting Software To Help Ensure Compliance And Protect The Public

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Targeting Trust Compliance Westheimer, a personal injury lawyer, is the former chair of The Florida Bar’s Disciplinary Review Committee and served on the bar’s Special Committee on Technologies Affecting the Practice of Law. He teaches a course in lawyer discipline and regulation at the University of Florida College of Law.

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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

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She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. You are then given cases, you’ve advanced to an office manager. Jessie has over 25 years of litigation experience in civil and personal injury trial law. I was 18 and had received my GED.

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Lessons from Management: Key Insights I Wish I Knew as a Paralegal

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If you’re a personal injury paralegal who doesn’t have to enter billable hours, then know how many active claim files you’re managing every month, how many settled this month and for how much, how many trials you had, and what the results of those trials were. This holds true even if you don’t have a billable hour number.

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I Was Interviewed by a Paralegal Student

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He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. Free Guide for Personal Injury Paralegals Are you ready to be a rockstar personal injury paralegal?! I actually was getting my college degree because I wanted to go on to law school. I went and interviewed for the position.