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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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Utah Sandbox OKs Two Programs Enabling Non-Lawyers To Give Legal Advice On Medical Debt

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Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. i4J will provide the MDLA training as an online, modular, bilingual curriculum.

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6 Ways to Expand Your Paralegal Education

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For instance, commercial litigation paralegals can benefit from CLEs explaining the methods of determining the appropriate type of business organization or drafting contracts. Museum exhibits and podcasts personalize significant court cases or legal developments such as the evolution of labor or environmental laws.

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Career Planning for the New Year

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This survey projected that corporate legal departments will be expanding internal teams to handle more legal matters in-house and also to control spending on outside counsel. What skills and expertise are in demand for paralegals/legal assistants? Healthcare. It’s not just law firms that will be hiring.

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

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Calloquy Platform Elevator Pitch: Calloquy is dedicated to making remote legal proceedings safe, secure, and efficient, both to reduce cost and risk for corporate litigants and to expand access to justice for underserved communities. Case Chronology Elevator Pitch: We are the legal Gold Standard for Chronologies.

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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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VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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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.