This week's paralegal blog from the Minnesota School of Business had an interesting post about paralegals running for office in 2012. Talk about expanding your career options!
Here are some of the candidates running campaigns. I assume that paralegals have an excellent foundation to run for certain offices: Dealing with difficult attorneys, working overtime, tons of...
Our guest blogger today is Beth King, RP
Collaboration with stakeholders is usually a good bet if you want to achieve a common goal. Unfortunately, collaboration usually means yet another meeting on our already full up calendar. Most of us think meetings are a waste of time – after all, if we are always in a meeting, when do we have a chance to get the work done? Because of...
Back in the "old days" which can mean going back a mere six or seven years, a legal professional with a degree who demonstrated solid work experience, could pretty much be assured that she would find a job. Generally speaking, few worried about going back to school. With the advent of this current recession, all of that changed significantly.
Nowadays, even if you have a stellar resume,...
I'm on my soapbox today with a pet peeve. I noticed that some paralegals are putting "ABA Certified Paralegal" on their resumes, social media or announcing it to friends and employers. Here's a suggestion: Stop now while you still can! Save yourself some embarrassment or even keep yourself from getting rejected from a job!The ABA does not offer certification. Certification is a...
We all start out headed in one direction, and darn it, if we don’t end up in another. There are estimates that people have three to five completely different careers in one lifetime. That’s a lot of time invested when including the decision-making process, transition time, learning curve and years to gain a little experience.Let’s introduce the concept of career-changing rather than...
Last Impressions Last impressions are as important as first and doubly important in the paralegal field where “everyone knows your name.” People talk, and when they’re talking about you, it’s important that the conversation remains positive. Ensure that today’s co-workers become tomorrow’s dependable references and contacts. Here are a few suggestions: Time to Get...
A paralegal wrote in with this question:Is it worth it for a paralegal to sit for the eDiscovery Certification Exam?Of course, I jumped right on this question!
As Chairperson of the Organization of Legal Professionals (OLP) and a co-founder of the International Paralegal Management Association, author of 10 books on legal careers and Editor-in-Chief of KNOW, The Magazine for Paralegals (ok,...
Legal Service Providers (LSPs), also known as vendors, have awakened to the fact that legal professionals have tremendous buying power. While the extent of that authority varies from firm to firm and east coast to west coast, no one can deny that legal professionals influence the firm or in-house legal department in the selection of suppliers of services and goods. This is...
Here's what's lacking in this market: Reliable salary surveys that the average law firm employee can get their hands on. Sure, there are lots of surveys out there but they are either a) an informal survey that isn't entirely accurate; b) available only for top executives; c) done by an association without the psychometrics, analytics and other precision tools that make a survey...
Hot controversy these days, on whether, if asked, you would provide a prospective employer your Facebook password. Candidates these days are being asked during the interview for their Facebook password before they have a chance to go home and cleanse the bad stuff. Years ago, employers would ask women what kind of birth control they used. (I remember being asked during an...