Talk about nerve! Or addiction? Excitement? Thrill of getting away with something? The ABA Journal.com reported that a West Virginia lawyer has been suspended for e-mail snooping. Apparently, the lawyer accessed his wife's e-mail account at the law firm at which she worked as an associate along with eight other lawyers at her firm at least 150 times over a two-year period. The West Virginia...
Here is a classic case of "everything old is new again". The Wall Street Journal today reported that the latest in vacations is the "staycation" - staying at home instead of getting away on your personal time off. The ABA Journal picked up the article with a story about a frugal lawyer who chose to stay at home instead of spending two weeks at a lovely beach....
We may be about 4 months late with this report but heck, we just found it. The ABA's Law Practice magazine issued its 19th annual report on what's hot; what's not in the legal field. Here is a refreshing look at some interesting and exciting new developments specifically for paralegals:Hot New Areas for Paralegals: Virtual Assistants. A form of outsourcing that is new. VAs are...
The National Law Journal published an article the other day entitled "Ecosystem of Legal Services Is Evolving". It was written by Mehul Patel who was previously the Chief Marketing Officer of a major San Francisco law firm who is now the EVP of Axiom Legal, a "new" type of contract attorney provider. Only Axiom Legal does not claim to be a contract attorney...
Paralegals in a union???? Yep. According to The Star-Telegram.com, protesters who marched Monday morning in Ft. Worth weren't airline employees, and airline management wasn't the target. This demonstration was conducted by employees of the Allied Pilots Association, and the managers being criticized are union pilots. The Allied Pilots Staff Employee Association represents 23 employees...
Outsourcing to paralegals and attorneys in India remains a booming business. In fact, Dupont, the model for progressive paralegal departments, outsourced so much work to LPOs (Legal Process Outsourcing) last year, that it saved the company over $500,000 in legal fees. In an article in Time magazine this morning, Tom Sager, chief litigation counsel for Dupont, said, "There's been some...
Talk about capitalizing on someone else's misery! According an article in the The Tampa Tribune, law firms are scrambling for more staff, particularly paralegals, in an effort to meet the wave of foreclosures in hard-hit areas of the country. One Tampa law firm, Florida Default Law Group, filed more than 400 foreclosure lawsuits in Hillsborough County in February alone, according to a Tampa...
This is one of those trivia facts that you're not too sure what to do with but makes a difference in how you might perceive the paralegal field. Most schools, articles, books, tall tales, and verbal chronologies of the paralegal field identify the field as starting in or around 1978 or so. In fact, the first paralegal program at UCLA started about then. However, in a solicitation for...
The Chicago Tribune reported today that there is an unprecedented rise in attorneys practicing animal law. Once an area thought to be only for attorneys with either a heart or frankly, nothing else to do, The Tribune notes that "92 of the 196 ABA approved law schools in the country now offer courses on animal law, up from the nine that offered classes in 2000." Moreover, some top law...
This just sent chills down my spine. Made my hair on my neck stand up. Whatever the cliche, I had it. The Maryland Daily Record reported that longtime lawyer Charles Jay Zuckerman said he has had it with private practice after a unanimous Court of Appeals on Monday suspended him a second time for mismanaging his client trust account, from which two successive paralegals stole more...