Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

Paralegal Profile: Ana Pierro, Securities Specialist & Blogger

By Lynne DeVenny

Employer: The affiliate of a large Bank, Jersey City, New Jersey

Years of Paralegal Experience: 15+

Education/Degrees: BA Political Science

Specialty Areas: Plaintiff?s personal injury and insurance defense. More recently securities litigation.

Career Highlight: Being able to contribute to the profession with my blog, The Paralegal, and serving as President of Legal Assistants Association of New Jersey (LAANJ) in 2005.

Paralegal Practice Tip: Learn as much as you can about an issue before you start to research it. It makes researching so much more interesting and easier. My other tip is to make sure you keep a ?tickler? system where you record due dates. Include file review dates. Don?t just put a file away without making sure you set a date for a status review.

Favorite Internet Resource: Google has to be the one constant in most of my research. It?s the first place I go when I need to find information about an issue.

Favorite Legal Software: I think Bloomberg Law, https://www.bloomberglaw.com/login.htm, is a great source of information for a securities paralegal.

Do you use social media resources, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or blogs, for career and/or case development? I use Twitter and LinkedIn as my professional resources, and I use Facebook with family.

Fun Fact: I was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal.

One Gadget You Can?t Live Without: I can?t live without my iPhone. My life is in it.

Favorite Quote: "Whether you think you can or can?t? you?re right." I always end it by adding my own, ?So you may as well think you can?

Paralegal/Legal Association Memberships: New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and Legal Assistants Association of New Jersey (LAANJ)

Professional Links: http://theparalegal.wordpress.com/

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).