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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. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Assist at trial.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

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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. Familiarity with legal software, case management systems, and common office software like Microsoft Office and Adobe is the bare minimum needed for technical skills.

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Top 7 Tips for Litigation Paralegals in 2024

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A document management system that organizes the electronic version of everything in the case, like the Microsoft Word documents that you’re drafting, memos, etc. eDiscovery software, which is used to process, review, and produce discovery in cases. Where is that hot document?

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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 Elevator Pitch: Altumatim is the story-based eDiscovery platform that fully automates document review and finds the most important evidence by learning the story the attorney wants to tell. There are two primary problems – finding the information you need among all the noise and fulfilling your discovery obligations.