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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

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She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). 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. In this blog, I’m interviewing Jessie Foss.

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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. Paralegal Training.

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

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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. You’ve also probably heard me talk about how much I loved being a litigation paralegal. I had a very successful career as a litigation paralegal. I was working at the top of my game.

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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. I spent 18 years as a litigation paralegal and a paralegal manager. I would train them from start to finish on everything they need to know for their litigation cases. Let’s say it’s litigation.

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Tips for Coping When Your Boss Yells at You

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In a recent coaching call that I do a couple of times a month inside the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp , I had a question from one of the paralegals about how to handle an attorney who is okay one day and then the next day is yelling and screaming at her. Angry at the attorneys who treat their staff like that.

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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. I created a litigation workflow for pre-lit and litigation as I learned the terms and their place in line. You may already know what a certain Attorney might say…. What would I do? Think fast! Read blogs.

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Ask Me Anything – Paralegal Career Edition

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The firm I work for only offers attorneys training on the job. We have litigation , personal injury , billable hour boot camp , trial prep boot camp , etc., This is what I would suggest you do: absorb everything your attorneys are doing around you and write it all down. It’s a shame.

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