Here’s a key point from the article:
"Failure to utilize paralegals effectively results in a host of problems for a law firm or a law department — and for the paralegals themselves. The results of a recent survey (August 2005) by the Committee on Paralegals of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association is consistent with the experience the author has had training and working with paralegals and in consulting with law firms and departments about how to improve paralegal utilization."
Note, the article [PDF link] author, Altman Weil’s James Wilber, will be a speaker at Estrin LegalEd’s Orlando SuperConference on April 6-7th.
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