Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My head bobbed up and down as I watched our new legal assistant bounce like a Jack Russell Terrier at my door holding a post-it-note above her head. The same can hold true with new legal assistants. As paralegals, we look for the blind spots, or red flags, with our cases, witnesses, and in our legal strategies.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

I’ve mentioned in previous articles that 43 years ago, the profession of “paralegals” and “legal assistants” didn’t really exist. Legal secretaries absorbed some of what is now considered paralegal responsibilities. I’ll start with what I view as most important, both in life and in legal. Value your legal team.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 31, 2023

We hear a lot about legal technology changing the way law firms operate, but technology doesn’t drive change: it empowers law firms to make the changes they want to make, or that they need to make to stay competitive and grow their businesses. The freedom to work remotely, at least some of the time, is an increasingly-common goal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

Applying for your first or early-career legal positions may be a little daunting. In the legal field, floating along to get your foot in the door can result in you being somewhere you didn’t know you weren’t looking for. Looking back to 2020 information, the mean hourly wages for Paralegals and Legal Assistants was $27.22

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 8, 2022

You can find more articles and resources to help build your legal career at InfoTrack’s website. Yet there’s one critical aspect of trust that legal professionals rarely talk about: the trust that we have in one another as colleagues within a law firm setting. Legal professionals work hard under incredible deadlines.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. Voting is now open! 14-17, 2024, in Chicago.

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