This lawyer's tips for paralegals sound smart. Let us know if you agree! "1. I Can’t See the Trees, but I Can See the Forest. I’m a sole practitioner and out of the office on a regular basis. I have a pretty full case load, I go to more than my fair share of seminars and conventions, and teach a number of classes and seminars. So I really need employees that can work...
This sure is an interesting list from a trial lawyer blog: "Well, we’re finally kicking off the Top 5 series. We’re starting with a doozy, things paralegals would tell their lawyers if they could. Most of the responses were anonymous, because the paralegals didn’t want their current or future employers to google them and find something that would hurt their future employment...
Good! Paralegals & lawyers need help with the hard work of e-discovery: "The impact of electronic data on modern litigation can hardly be overstated. More than 90 percent of information now is created and stored electronically. "With most day-to-day business records created in electronic form, courts and litigants alike struggle to define e-discovery production requirements. Parties...
The ITV Interview with Eric Frankel , President of Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution: Frankel: "Yes. First, you need to look at all your rights, program-by-program and episode-by-episode, to see if you have the rights to put it on the Internet. "A couple of years ago, I said, 'Gee. One of these days, Internet TV is going to happen, and we should try to be the first guys...
One of our Paralegal SuperConference speakers, James Wilber from Altman Weil, publishes national salary survey. Ouch, NJ is the lowest: "Paralegals in New Jersey earn markedly less than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to a new survey of paralegal compensation. "If they worked in Newark last year, their average pay was $53,909, including bonus and...
Another welcome move by a firm -- announcing paralegal hires: "Ralph J. DiLeone, managing partner at DiLeone & Associates, P.C., has announced that Dara Lyon Warner has joined the firm as a paralegal. In this position, Warner will be involved with business incorporations and other business related matters, wills and estate administration, manage administrative and financial matters, and...
Firm's press release on winning the case also acknowledges paralegals! Although the firm does not currently post paralegal bios, a site search pulls up several more press releases naming paralegals as part of the team: "On July 11, 2006, the Firm won the dismissal of a consolidated ERISA putative class action filed against American Electric Power. The dismissal of this ERISA action...
Two paralegals & their husbands on a really different path: "Imagine your job is to plan parties, give out prizes to people who attend, chat with guests and entertain them with music. "Welcome to Lightning Rod ProMotions. "Two husband-and-wife teams own the LaGrange-based company. Donna and Ed Silinsky and Cheryl and Ray LeFever host weekly events for car enthusiasts in the...
Database for IP litigation sounds like a smart plan: "When Joshua Walker worked with a team of lawyers in Kigali, Rwanda, to mount a case against the perpetrators of that country's genocide, he built a database of trial evidence under wartime conditions. Targets of his investigation put a $1,000 bounty on him. "Ten years later, the 32-year-old has war zones -- and law school -- behind...
Here's an interesting article about corporate executive witnesses: "These are challenging times for those of us who represent and defend corporations in litigation. The recent criminal convictions of Enron's Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling only confirm what we have known for quite some time -- jurors are skeptical of, and even hostile toward, corporations and corporate executives. "But...