Networking. No matter how you twitter, tweet, link, face or space, you have to do it these days if you want to avoid career suicide. With all this online socializing, however, your knack for meeting strangers one-on-one (probably the best networking tool of all) gets rusty and pushed into the background of your skills. There's no such thing...
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From Justice Dream Job to Nightmare
Tamarah Grimes, Justice Department Paralegal:Why This Whistleblower Was Dissed & Dismissed
By Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L.
As federal prosecutors prepared in 2006 for the corruption trial of Alabama’s former Gov. Don Siegelman, Justice Department paralegal Tamarah Grimes thought she was progressing well...
Today’s screaming for qualified e-discovery professionals has reached an unprecedented volume. Recently, Socha-Gelbman published an overview of the results of their annual survey on the Legal Technology News site.
One of the most important single observations from it is the shortage of expertise in the market-place with providers, law firms and corporations reported as “fighting each other...
According to the Carolina Paralegal News, South Carolina paralegals won't be seeing voluntary certification and registration any time soon.
The South Carolina House of Delegates has tabled a proposal for paralegals to start a voluntary certification program for paralegals. The delegates referred a proposed Certified Paralegal Program back to the Paralegal Task Force which...
The Organization of Legal Professionals, a non-profit organization has launched its membership drive. Dedicated to certification of e-Discovery and other areas in the legal field, this association has attracted some of the top lawyers and legal professionals in the country and abroad. Dedicated to certification through education and collaboration, The OLP's goals include e-discovery...
The Washington State Paralegal Association sent us their new "Unofficial LinkedIn User Guide" they developed for new paralegal LinkedIn users. This simple guide is fantastic. I wish I had it when I started instead of making the bloopers I made!While you may (or may not) be Linking, Tweating or Facing away, the guide is an indication as to just...
Have you ever found yourself performing an assignment that you know perfectly well, given a different name and a different case, would be the same assignment you have performed over and over ad nauseam? For example, deposition summaries, indexing, boiler plate contracts, subpoenas, and the like. Same assignment, different story.
This action, my friends, is a sure sign of the...
Somewhere out there are America's Favorite Paralegals. You know who they are. These are colleagues, friends and managers who love their jobs, push the profession forward and always strive for excellence. Not only do you enjoy working with them, they are admired by co-workers, supervisors and clients alike.Know, The Magazine for Paralegals would like to acknowledge these very special...
Margaret Agius is a rock solid paralegal. But after ten years with a major Detroit law firm, she was laid off from her job as a products liability specialist. Since then, this lively, smart and well-educated paralegal has had difficulty finding another position in a city that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
"Nothing seems to be...
According to the Huffington Post, new questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department after former White House political strategist Karl Rove provided his long-awaited responses to House Judiciary Committee staff Tuesday about allegations that he pressured prosecutors to target Democrats nationally. Few details have emerged about Rove's questioning on such...