The Salary Survey That Can Ruin Your Career

Posted on by Chere Estrin
I got all excited. The NALA salary survey was out. Time to find out what paralegals around the country were making. And then the other shoe dropped.  I'm not a statistics expert. I don't claim to be. However, I am an advocate of higher salaries. Frankly, I don't know of advocates for lower salaries. I started to read the "small print" in the salary survey and all I can...

Is there tension between paralegal lifers and future lawyers?

Posted on by Chere Estrin
The Grindstone published a pretty good article about paralegals yesterday.  It was a little about the differences in paralegal environments, responsibilities, billable hours and the joys of the job.  Although it was a bit of a hodgepodge piece, they quoted Linda McGrath-Cruz and me, so I thought what the heck, I'll share it with you: On the USA show Suits the character of Rachel...