Another helpful tip from The Virtual Chase: "LexisNexis last week introduced a toolbar for Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. The toolbar lets you set up your query before launching an online session. You may also use it to conduct searches in Google, MSN Search or Wikipedia."The toolbar comes with several different interfaces designed to focus on different uses of the research...
Read all about streamlining manual workflows in a major firm: “Fish & Richardson P.C., a national law firm with over 320 lawyers in nine offices across the USA, is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law, and is the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. “After carefully considering several other workflow...
Where do you stand on this question? Read Experts Question 'Keep Everything' Philosophy & you might change sides! "'If you keep everything, you are saying, in effect, that all information is created equal, which it isn't,'" says Julie Gable of Pennsylvania-based Gable Consulting, an independent consultant specializing in electronic records management issues. "The solution is to...
Now this is must-read article from legal consulting giant, Altman Weil (written by James S. Wilber), about the effective utlization of paralegals. Enjoy this well-reasoned piece from a company that knows more than a little about paralegals!
The Scottish Paralegal Association (SPA) sounds very good: "Formed in 1993, the Scottish Paralegal Association is the only association formally recognised by the Law Society of Scotland as the body representing the interests and promoting the development of paralegals in Scotland. The Association holds among its membership paralegals who operate in a variety of roles within the legal...
Law Office Computing magazine has compiled helpful tips for some of the most popular legal software programs. "The following tips have been submitted by LOC subscribers, experts and the software companies themselves." Amicus AttorneyCase MasterConcordanceDDI* LawDeltaView 2.5HotDocsJurisNeedlesNoteMapPalmPCLaw ProLaw 7.86SanctionSummationTABS IIIThinkDocsTime...
Check out this article by Cary Griffith in Legal Assistant Today magazine about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act creating more work than ever before for paralegals: "Almost four years later, paralegals still are trying to unscramble their increased workloads." Next thing you know, we'll have little 'Sarbanettes' running around doing what case assistants do for litigation....
It is an interesting adventure trying to get some attorneys to speak at a Paralegal SuperConference. I guess they view this as a step-down. We asked no fewer than 14 attorneys to speak at our Los Angeles Paralegal SuperConference. Most were from major firms. Their responses? Either none whatsoever, totally ignoring the communication -- meaning "go away" -- or a...
Patricia Dietz-Selke holds a Bachelor's degree with Honors in International Studies (with a Minor in Management), from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, and an ABA Paralegal Certificate with Honors in Litigation from the National Center for Paralegal Training (NCPT) in Atlanta. Over the past 13 years, she has worked in the fields of Transportation Law, Family Law, Litigation,...
New research tip from The Virtual Chase: "Legislative Source Book: The Legislative Research SpecialInterest Section of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.offers this compilation of research guides and practical articles aboutlegislative research and documents. Find, for example, a Q&A onconducting legislative and regulatory research." Very interesting stuff!