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What is a Litigation Paralegal?

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A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. Three primary areas of case management responsibility include: Draft pleadings and discovery. Ability to Work Well Under Pressure Litigation paralegals must have good time management skills.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

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Legal research skills Legal research skills are essential for finding and analyzing laws, regulations, and court decisions pertinent to the case you’re working on. The attorneys are usually thinking about the big picture and how to win the case rather than the best way to organize the discovery responses for easy retrieval.

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Top 7 Tips for Litigation Paralegals in 2024

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Westlaw and LexisNexis, are legal information databases, which you probably got student access to while you were in school. eFiling, the application that allows you to electronically file your pleadings, motions, briefs, and other court filings. Back in the old days, there was no such thing as electronic filing.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

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We see junior paralegals grow into case managers. You become an e-discovery project manager, or an e-discovery project coordinator or specialist. The federal rules talk about producing electronically stored information in a way that is usable. Well, it’s no different in e-discovery. Do the math.

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Time to Vote! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023

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With Legal Ninja, they create a template of what they want done in the case management program, such as creating calendar entries, updating custom fields, add notes, generate document templates and tasks lists. Our software automates multiple repetitive actions being done within the user’s case management system.

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

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Altumatim cuts through the noise in the ever-increasing volume of electronically stored information (ESI) and reduces the cost and time required to find the information that is critical to making informed decisions about whether or how to proceed with a matter and ultimately how to present the most compelling case at trial.