A litigation paralegal's job can often include defining many of the search terms used in e-discovery. That can cost your client big, BIG bucks as reported today in Ralph Losey's blog, e-Discovery Team.
Apparently, a trial lawyer for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) agreed to an e-discovery search of backup tapes to find relevant information....
There's a brand new event that's occuring at LegalTech this year: The Paralegal Technology Institute at LegalTech in New York on Feb. 3-4 at the Sheraton Hotel. They are even giving you the first day of LegalTech on Feb. 2nd for free.
Why am I mentioning it here? Probably because I am hearing from so many paralegals who are trying desperately to either hang on to...
You knew it. You chose to be a paralegal instead of a lawyer but until now, no one has officially sanctioned your choice. In fact, many people (including old Aunt Minnie and grouchy Uncle Vinnie) still question why you didn't go on to become a lawyer. Well, my little chickadees, you now have an official survey to point to that substantiates and...
It's the old "good news and bad news" syndrome. The bad news, of course, is that these tough economic times have led to more businesses filing bankruptcy. The good news is, that someone has to handle those bankruptcies and that "someone" is a law firm.
According to an article in the New York Lawyer, BigFirms such as Sidley & Austin, Skadden Arps...
Any paralegal worth his or her salt knows that the first thing you cannot do is to represent yourself as an attorney. Apparently, according to an article in The New York Lawyer, a lawyer and his paralegal thought otherwise.
According to the article, Pomper sent his paralegal/secretary Larissa Sufaru to a hearing in Somerset County (New Jersey) Family Part on May 5, 2006,...
Since this is hardly the first recession many of us have weathered, some of the articles we're reading could have been written in 2001 or in any of the other more infamous economically turmoiled times. However, the concerns may be the same but with regulation, more client awareness of what paralegals can do and increased utilization of paralegals, the stakes get higher each time. A...
Not everything is always public in a law firm. Particularly, whether the partner you are working for is an equity or non-equity partner. Paralegals don't always know or care, for that matter. But this volatile economy has caused new meaning to the word, KNOW. If you are assigned to work for a non-equity partner, you might want to check around and find out whether that...
Something we always suspected now has some scientific research backing it. According to today's National Law Journal, science is now helping us understand how juries make decisions in crime and punishment. The articles states that: "Researchers from Vanderbilt University used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to chart brain activity as subjects were...
Taking advantage of this new era of social networking, a smart paralegal has identified a need and filled it. Robin Elizabeth Margolis, paralegal, realized that IP paralegals and e-discovery paralegals have positions that demand unique knowledge but no specialty associations existed to address their positions.
Using LinkedIn, Google Search, and other Internet tools, she formed two...
It used to be that Corporate America would not do the dastardly deed at holiday time. That is to say, layoffs would be put off until after Christmas. That way, even though you knew it might be coming, you could "act as if" and have a supposed normal holiday.
Nowadays, it seems as though firms are purging and scouring as fast as they can, holidays be damned. Today, Reed Smith, a...