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A Path from Paralegal to Lawyer

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She started her legal career as a legal assistant and then worked for several years as a paralegal at Georgia Pacific. While working there, she chose to take the path from paralegal to lawyer and attended the part-time law school program at Georgia State University. Learn how to be a problem-solving paralegal.

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I Was Interviewed by a Paralegal Student

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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. They were hired as case assistants. These case assistants reported directly to me and turned in everything they did on the cases as quote assignments.

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

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We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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$4.3M in Grants to 36 Legal Services Programs Underscore Role of Tech in Driving Access to Justice

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Legal Services of Greater Miami’s $177,774 grant will support technology that strengthens the Florida Community Development Legal Project , a statewide collaborative that focuses on free and low-cost legal services for lower-income small business owners and other groups.

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$4.3M in Grants to 36 Legal Services Programs Underscore Role of Tech in Driving Access to Justice

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Legal Services of Greater Miami’s $177,774 grant will support technology that strengthens the Florida Community Development Legal Project , a statewide collaborative that focuses on free and low-cost legal services for lower-income small business owners and other groups.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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The problem was this: Many of the books that contain our official case law were published by companies that had a history of acting aggressively through litigation to prevent others from copying the law or from competing in the realm of legal information. The ‘guillotine’ the project used for slicing books’ bindings.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.