Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

• The number one cause of legal malpractice claims


• Law office technology and training


• Getting started on going paperless


• Avoiding key technology-related ethics errors


• Top three considerations when selecting a litigation support vendor


• Negotiating volume-pricing and direct billing with vendors

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Here are a few links to additional practice management resources:

• Oregon Law Practice Management blog, http://oregonlawpracticemanagement.wordpress.com/


• ABA Law Practice Management Section, http://www.abanet.org/lpm/home.shtml, and ABA Law Practice Today, http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/


• Jim Calloway?s Law Practice Tips Blog, http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/


• Lawyerist.com, http://lawyerist.com/


• National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) ethics resources including the Paralegal Model of Professional Responsibility, guidelines for ethics and disciplinary opinions, conflicts of interest and ethics applications to paralegals, http://www.paralegals.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=330


• National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) ethics resources including the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and Model Standards and Guidelines for the Utilization of Paralegals, http://www.nala.org/


• NALS ethics resources including Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, http://www.nals.org/aboutnals/code/index.html

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