Show me an employee who says the money doesn't matter and I'll show you someone whose nose is growing.
Paralegals are now facing a tremendous game changer - the advent of technology plays a significant factor in whether or not you make good money. Statistics show that paralegals without technology know-how earn fewer dollars than those that have the skills. That doesn't mean...
Sometimes it’s hard to fathom that a paralegal can get promoted. Law firms generally offer a horizontal career path for paralegals rather than vertical. In other words, your assignments get more sophisticated by moving outward, not upward. But let’s face it: you are not exactly going to move up to partner.
There’s a lot of new movement going on these days that can allow you to move up....
It's a sure-footed, absolute and positive, no mistakin' it gamble. Switching specialties, that is. Bored with what you're doing? Fed up with a paltry salary? Peeking over the fence to see who makes more money? Seeking that enigma: better challenge?
Tonya Pierce addresses the topic today. She's making some good points. The main one being: THINK before you leap (and other relevant...
Cover letters are usually boring. About 98% of the time it’s entirely possible that your cover letter is just like the last one that the employer read. In fact, while not word-for-word, I'll bet it goes something like:
To whom it may concern: “I noticed your ad for a litigation paralegal. I am an experienced paralegal with 10 years of experience. I have attached my resume...
Oh, for heaven's sake! First we read for years how the major firms are going to go under, disband or simply disappear and now we're reading out go the midsize firms. What's going to be left? Teeny, tiny little firms or solos? What does this mean for the paralegal?Probably a lot. Already, a new trend is sweeping the country: the combining of the paralegal with the legal secretarial...
2015! Predictions for each new year is a c**pshoot. How can you know? Based on what? I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that most likely, predictions are based upon the...
We try to follow Robert Denny at www.robertdenney.com for what's hot - what's not. There are tons of Nots and Hots around, however, Denny seems to have his predictions right.
Here is what he says is slated to happen in 2015. My take on things is that he's probably 95% correct for lawyers. But then again, I'm only concerned with paralegals and sometimes what's hot...
Have you ever wondered what might have happened in your life if you had chosen one road over another? I mean, what really might have happened?
I don't make a habit of writing about my own experiences but....several years ago while minding my own business (literally). I was approached by a major corporation (big players - cool $5+ billion a year in revenue) to head up their $50 million...
Our guest blogger today is Katherine Giacolone, The Corporate Nanny All too often we have conflicting work priorities. We're all working managers with daily tasks that have to get done and new assignments that come and go. We don't have a whole lot of room for organizational emergencies or pop-up projects!
But the emergencies and pop-ups are going to come, and the...
Have you ever been curious, even just a tiny bit, about what attorneys really think about paralegals? You can use a little emotional intelligence that might help. You know the new science: interpreting expressions, analyzing perceptions and evaluating emotions.
Or, you can go right to the source and just ask - which is exactly what I did. Why wait? The world goes around fast enough these...