Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 25, 2021

Most likely, you did not have a class on case management in your paralegal certificate program. When you’re starting a new career as a litigation paralegal, these case management tips will help you if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed. Develop a case management methodology. You struggle to find things.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Clair Long, owner of a law firm in Illinois, what are some of the top skills or traits that you look for in paralegals that you also look for in your associates? What are three "must-have" skills for paralegals? That means time management. That means communication and cooperation. Our firm is collaborative and supportive.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 22, 2021

As a new paralegal or someone who has been working as a paralegal for a few years, this is a great time to set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. The same thing can happen to your paralegal career if you’re not careful. When to Start Your Paralegal Career Growth Plan. Smarter Goals for Paralegal Career Growth.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 3, 2023

Are you ready to fast-track your paralegal career? These 10 paralegal tips will help you stand out at your firm and accelerate your paralegal career. Remember that Attorneys are not the Grammar Police One thing that I didn’t realize is that a lot of paralegals will do their drafts and not finish the edits.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 8, 2022

If such a meme depicted a paralegal’s education, the visible tip of the iceberg would represent the formal, foundational education and essential working skills of that paralegal. . These are the qualifications that clients, attorneys, and other professionals see in day-to-day interactions with the paralegal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 9, 2022

A new litigation paralegal should look at three key areas early in their career. If you only focus on the paralegal skills that you might be lacking early in your career, then you might spend too much time focused on how many decades it will take you to gain all of those skills. Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp. L EARN MORE.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 20, 2022

I wish paralegal training programs included a course on problem-solving! It’s such an important skill for paralegals to have. Do you know what one of the top skills attorneys tell me they want their paralegals to have? I consistently hear, “I have a great paralegal because he (or she) solves my problems.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 13, 2023

What is an Indispensable Paralegal? An indispensable paralegal is an essential member of the team. If you’re looking for the top paralegal skills or paralegal traits, I’ve written about those before on this blog. Specifically, habits that you can develop if you want to be an indispensable paralegal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 27, 2023

I get this question so often from new paralegals who tell me they’re not comfortable around their attorneys and struggling to develop their confidence and find their confident voice as a paralegal. I’m here to help you fast-track your paralegal career. And building up your confidence as a paralegal is a surefire way to do that.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. How to Get Up to Speed Fast on Your Cases I think one of the tips for litigation paralegals that could help here is what I had recommended in our three-step roadmap for new litigation paralegals.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 10, 2024

The key to accelerating your career in 2024 is learning eDiscovery and this blog is going to give you a 3-step plan for litigation paralegals to follow to make it happen. I feel so passionate about litigation paralegals learning about eDiscovery because I’ve seen what it can do for litigation paralegals’ careers.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

In fact, creating and managing workflows is one of the most important things that you can do as a law firm owner. Many project management, case management and CRM systems now offer the ability to add phases or stages to processes. However, you can take it further.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 25, 2021

Watch the free paralegal webinar replay from the Paralegal Boot Camp to get the top 7 habits that you can develop to fast-track your paralegal career, enjoy your work more, and feel like you are an indispensable member of the team. There are good paralegals. And there are great paralegals. Be a great paralegal!

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 13, 2023

So I thought sharing what I would do differently if I were starting a new paralegal career today would be a good topic to discuss in the first month of the year. Or maybe you know a paralegal who is new to the paralegal profession that you can share this blog with. Invest in your paralegal career development.

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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. The place every new paralegal is at the start of their career. The place every new paralegal is at the start of their career. They do exist.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Are you aware of the power a paralegal mentor can have for someone’s paralegal career? Ashley is a Sessional Instructor for the Paralegal Studies and Office Assistant Programs at McEwen University, and she has over 16 years of experience in the legal industry. Prefer Audio Instead of Reading? Her name is Ashley Stasewicz.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These were the top 10 paralegal career takeaways and actionable strategies from 2023. How to Take Charge of Your Paralegal Career Instead of waiting to see what your company is going to do for you, ask, “What am I going to do for myself?” I think it’s one of the best investments you can make in your paralegal career.

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The Estrin Report

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Estrin was founder of the Paralegal Knowledge Institute , an online CLE organization. She publishes the prestigious digital magazine, KNOW , the Magazine for Paralegals , and is the former Editor-in-Chief of Sue , the Magazine for Women Litigators. She is CEO of Estrin Legal Staffing , a nationwide staffing organization.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 15, 2023

If you’ve been in our community for a while, you know I was a paralegal manager before I started my company, Paralegal Boot Camp. I learned some things as a manager that I wish I knew when I was a paralegal, and I want to share some of those things with you in this article. I was working at the top of my game.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Preparing a deposition summary can be time-consuming for a litigation paralegal and costly to the client. For a typical 200-page deposition transcript, it can take a litigation paralegal more than 8 hours to summarize one deposition transcript. 50:22 – 53:6 He worked directly for Smith as a project manager.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When paralegals are looking at alternative paralegal careers outside the popular litigation paralegal field, contract management does not usually come to mind. However, there seems to be an increase in paralegal job opportunities in the field of contract management. But what exactly is contract management?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 27, 2023

Molly has 25 years of specific skillset experience serving as a Fractional CEO, CMO marketing, factional CEO, conversation intelligence coaching, team development & leadership, employee empowerment, intrapreneur talent acquisition, Kaizen leadership, root cause analysis, revenue mapping, and action-based project management.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 17, 2021

Litigation Software as a New Litigation Paralegal. We will break down the paralegal technology skills into three categories of software: administration, matter management, and practice-specific applications. As a new litigation paralegal, it is not expected that you will have mastered all of these technologies.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2021

Eventually, as you grow into your role as an ediscovery project manager , you will realize that the ediscovery project budget can be your tool to: measure efficiencies. The advantage of using this method is that it allows the project team to think about possible alternatives and outcomes from different perspectives.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 11, 2023

For more than 10 years, ACEDS has trained lawyers, paralegals and other legal support professionals at law firms, corporate legal departments, the government, and in academia. He is also the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery , now in its second edition. I understand.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 8, 2023

The Inspiration for this Blog As I mentioned, I had a phone call from someone who was seeking a payment plan option for the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp because she said, “I desperately need the course, I’m new to litigation and have no idea what I should be doing every day, and no one is available to help me.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2022

For those litigation paralegals who embrace it and learn everything they can about it, eDiscovery matters and has been a game-changer for their careers. In fact, I’m also hosting a free masterclass next week on it because of how important eDiscovery is to litigation paralegal careers. What if you’re a personal injury paralegal?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Performance reviews are a necessary evil but changing how you perceive them overall, especially as paralegals, can be a total game-changer. I know for many paralegals and other legal professionals; the end of the year is a time when you self-reflect and maybe even self-assess. Prefer to Listen Instead of Read? Let’s jump in!

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 17, 2021

Examples: Administrative tasks (such as organizing files, getting docket updates and so on); routine project management tasks; data gathering on the opposing party and their attorneys. (We Quadrant A: Low Complexity and Low Importance. This is a slam dunk! This work should be delegated. proofreading motions prior to filing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 29, 2021

If your profession includes anything related to litigation (paralegal, attorney, support staff, technology person, project manager, etc.), to use from start to finish on all of your e-discovery projects. appeared first on Paralegal Bootcamp. Ediscovery. The post What is Ediscovery?

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DigitalParalegalServices

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Six Reasons Technology Is Important To Your Paralegal Career. Technology is revolutionizing legal processes, court functions, and how many attorneys and firms work and manage cases. Paralegals who understand the importance of legal technology in today’s legal market are an asset to your legal team. By: Angela Masciulli, ACP.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The survey by contract management company Lexion polled 450 inhouse legal professionals — general counsel, inhouse counsel, legal operations professionals, contract managers, paralegals and others — across various industries. Legal task management. Spend management. General project management.

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

This repository retains institutional knowledge allowing significant cost savings for onboarding of new attorneys, experts, or paralegals. Imagine yourself moving forward confidently with ready access to expert project teams using best-in-class litigation technology and AI-driven testimony intelligence. Press release

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Strategic Use of Support Staff: Optimize the use of paralegals and legal assistants for tasks that don’t require attorney-level expertise. For example, have paralegals handle initial document review or draft routine motions, reducing overall costs while maintaining case quality through attorney supervision.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 26, 2025

Mismanagement of staff time Billable hours make or break a law firms profitability, but too often, attorneys lose time to non-billable tasks like scheduling, document management, and client intake especially when the team has no proper time-tracking tool in place.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 26, 2025

Mismanagement of staff time Billable hours make or break a law firms profitability, but too often, attorneys lose time to non-billable tasks like scheduling, document management, and client intake especially when the team has no proper time-tracking tool in place.

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Rocket Matter

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Paralegals, legal assistants, and administrative staff are among the employees you may need. You can maximize the productivity and impact of a small team by empowering them with high-performing legal practice management software like Rocket Matter. Strive to keep your staff limited early on.

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