20 Lawyer Jokes You Should Never Tell
How does an attorney sleep? Well, first he lies on one side, then he lies on the other. You’ve heard that one, along with a million other lawyer jokes that people have sprung on you from the moment you first …
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5 Mistakes Lawyers Make… That Paralegals Get Stuck Cleaning Up
Okay, sure, paralegals make plenty of mistakes. The difference is that you take care of your own mistakes—fall on your sword when you miss a filing, stay late and clean up contract language when you screw up a draft. You …
8 Steps to Opening Up A Legal Services Business of Your Own
Becoming a paralegal says something about a person. No, not just “I like being verbally abused by lawyers all day.” It says you have some ambition, some drive. You like to work independently and you enjoy learning new things and …
Your Guide to 100% Online Continuing Legal Education
From your first day on the job, one thing is going to become very clear to you as a new paralegal: despite all the hours you spent in class earning your degree, your education is really just starting. Changes in …
Top 10 Rookie Mistakes New Paralegals Make
It’s too much to expect that anyone stepping into a brand new position will do a letter-perfect job on day one.. but nothing builds dumb confidence quite like a college degree and zero experience! As a brand new paralegal, fresh …
Could You Be Replaced by Legal Software
Will Legal Software Soon Replace Paralegals? Each day moves us one step closer to life once existing only in the minds of sci-fi writers and conspiracy theorists dreaming of a world where robots rule, or in the nightmares of 21st …
5 Ways Movies and TV Get the Legal Process Wrong
Watching legal dramas on TV, you’d think the client or even the attorney sets the pace at which the wheels of justice turn. If you’re one of those paralegals who gets irritated every time you watch a complex court case …
5 Paralegals Who Are Changing the World
In a way, almost every paralegal changes the world. It’s easy to overlook the fact that all the mundane paperwork, all the boring LexisNexis searches, all the interminable client interviews, are actually part of an important and frequently life-changing legal …