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Practical Paralegalism's Recommended Reading This Week

By Lynne DeVenny

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I blog for paralegals, legal assistants, legal secretaries, paralegal students, paralegal educators, and all the other legal professionals essential to the practice of law - as well as the attorneys who want to get to know us better. Once a week (or every other week when I get behind), I share links to a half dozen or so articles focusing on legal news and humor, practice tips and technology.

Here's this week's list:

When we talk about paralegals needing to get a little nerdy to keep up with today's legal technology, we probably didn't mean this nerdy. I can say this since I once had my matrimonial sights set on Mr. Spock. (Thanks, Wired.com!)

I am officially going to law school (A Paralegal's Journey to Lawyerhood) ~ Even if you normally lurk at your favorite blogs, please comment on this post and congratulate this paralegal on a job well done - and an extraordinary surprise. Look for a future Practical Paralegalism post, "Why I am never going to law school" (people ask all the time, it's time to answer).

Working Overtime: Is it the best use of your time? (The Paralegal Mentor) ~ For those of us who embrace the label workaholic, is it necessarily a good thing?

Most of the time we know the answer...but is it ethical? (The Paralegal) ~ Ana Pierro thoughtfully analyzes a situation that many of us face every day.

Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day (LLRX.com) ~ Open source is a fancy way of saying free stuff. Law librarian Nicole Engard shares great tools for everything from web browsing to desktop publishing.

The Power of Having Twitter Conversations Off of Twitter (twitip) ~ Some of the best professional relationships I've had since joining Twitter, started on Twitter and then went elsewhere, including e-mail, telephone and face-to-face.

A Cover Letter Is Not a Tweet (Alison's Job Searching Blog) ~ Learning to express yourself in 140 characters or less can be good for your writing, unless it's your cover letter. Short and sweet is the kiss of death in this setting. "My brilliant resume says it all; you should definitely hire me," will likely send your resume airborne, before it takes a nosedive into the closest trashcan. Alison Doyle reviews what employers expect to see in a well-written cover letter.

Nightmares About Your Job May Suggest You Need a New One, Says ABA (Lowering the Bar) ~ Yes, this would seem to belabor an obvious point, but you don't need to read the actual article, thanks to this short and funny summary.

Bedbugs Invade Winston & Strawn (Above the Law) ~ Speaking of nightmares at work, this would be mine. Special thanks to Lifehacker for the tip, Leave Luggage in a Hot Car to Minimize Risk of Bed Bugs.

Favorite Practical Paralegalism post from this time last year: Is It Okay to Dump Business Lunch Leftovers into Your Purse?

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on September 19, 2010 (boomark / email).