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What IS a paralegal, exactly?

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I think a shorter list is what one is not, but in summary, paralegals provide day to day support by assisting attorneys, law offices, or other various agencies conducting research, drafting legal documents, and handling cases. A paralegal is not a legal assistant or legal secretary. What a paralegal is NOT.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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More broadly, life on the ranch prepared her for other experiences in later years, as she noted that until she began to ride with the cattle drives, “it had been an all-male domain. Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford.

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