Gotta check out LAT's latest news blurbs: Ohio Provides Paralegal Certification: Bar association creates education, experience standards. Carrying on After Katrina: The paralegal community strives to cope one year later. ATLA Adopts New Name: Association works to improve image of trial lawyers. NALA Holds Annual Convention: Education and achievements rewarded at the 31st annual event. Florida...
Sounds like a good job opportunity in Montana: "A grant recently awarded to the Montana Legal Services Association will allow the group to bolster its services across the state."According to Klaus Sitte, executive director for the association, the $650,000 Legal Assistance for Victims grant through the Montana Department of Justice will fund positions for three attorneys, and three...
Remarkable post-graduation introduction for paralegals in the Philippines: "Graduates from The Manila Times Institute for Paralegal Studies (TMTIPS) interacted on Monday with 120 inmates at the National Bilibid Prisons taking up a special course in business administration. "The inmates attend class at the College Building in Camp Sampaguita, the NBP’s medium security facility....
Money Magazine has ranked paralegal jobs in America # 27 out of the 50 best: "MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors." And here's how they picked those "best jobs."
Something litigation paralegals need to know: how word searches can limit the scope of e-discovery production: "With the impending changes in the federal rules related to electronic discovery, opposing parties will be required to discuss any and all discovery issues involving electronically stored information (ESI). "In this context, discussions will likely focus on what information...
This approach -- of specializing in a practice area -- makes sense: "Growing Boston law firms and harried corporate law departments share a common challenge: recruiting paralegals."
This Minneapolis firm, Briggs & Morgan, showcases its paralegals with photo profiles. See, for example: Business & securities paralegal Julie R. Hanson, business litigation & labor/employment paralegal Jeanette T. Larson, business litigation & mortgage banking paralegal Craig S. Hennen, & public finance paralegal Linda Obidowski. The firm also describes paralegals as part of...
Good works recognized by major firm: "Vinson & Elkins LLP is proud to announce that Pam Lewis, a paralegal in the firm’s insolvency and reorganization (IR) practice in Dallas, received the President’s Call to Service Award in a ceremony at the Fort Worth Police Academy on August 23, 2006. Lewis was nominated and chosen for this award because she has volunteered over 4,000 hours in...
Woo-hoo, lawyers doing their thing at this crazy show: "Over the weekend, mediator Ron Kelly planned to put on his full-length white linen suit and his huge green hat -- 'three feet in diameter' -- and set up his booth in the desert, so he could do what he describes as some of his most interesting work. "For the past six years or so, Kelly has made for the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to...
Must-read post on the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog: "William Ross, a professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Ala., calls it 'the perfect crime.' NYU legal ethics guru Stephen Gillers says there’s a 'general consensus' that the practice is on the upswing. The practice? Law-firm billing fraud, and the WSJ’s Nathan Koppel takes a look at the issue...