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: Practical Paralegalism

Paralegal Profile: Dennyce Korb, CP

By Lynne DeVenny

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Job Title: Paralegal

Employer: Johnson Eiesland Law Offices, P.C., Rapid City, South Dakota

Years of Paralegal Experience: 24 years

Education/Degrees: AA degree in liberal arts

Specialty Areas: Nursing home litigation, medical negligence, defective products, plaintiffs? personal injury; we concentrate on catastrophic injury cases.

Career Highlight: Yet to come I hope! From the standpoint of cases I?ve worked on, I think the two that stand out the most are cases many might think weren?t worth much because the people involved (one a profoundly mentally handicapped woman who drowned in a bathtub at a group home and the other a 100-year old woman who died after being dropped by a CNA in a nursing home) had very little, if any, pecuniary value under the law. Fortunately, we were able to convey to a jury that both of these people had value far beyond what money could measure and obtained substantial verdicts and some measure of justice for the families of these two remarkable people.

Paralegal Practice Tip: You have a brain and a voice?use them both. You shortchange yourself and the attorney you are working with if you keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

Favorite Internet Resource: Oh, I truly wish I had something more brilliant and innovative to offer here, but I must confess my favorite resource is Google. How boring, right?

Favorite Legal Software: Summation and Trial Director

Do you use social media resources, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or blogs, for career and/or case development?

I use Facebook personally but frequently post information meant to educate those in my social network about civil justice issues, trying to correct some of the misinformation that has been put out there about trial lawyers and the justice system by various groups and individuals over the past many years.

Fun Fact: I recently added ?Learn to play steel drums? to my Bucket List, and I think I need to move that particular item closer to the top!

One Gadget You Can?t Live Without: VZ-Navigator on my cell phone?I am eternally directionally challenged!!

Favorite Quote: Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...

~Winifred Peterson

Paralegal/Legal Association Memberships: South Dakota Paralegal Association, Paralegal Affiliate of the American Association for Justice

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I love hearing from readers and was thrilled when Dennyce contacted me and volunteered to do a profile. She was very modest and implied she might not be that interesting, but then she sends me her terrific profile, and I Google (my fave, too!) her and discover that she's really very modest. She is a NALA Certified Paralegal (and you know I think all of you guys are geniuses), and she was the 2008-2009 American Association for Justice Paralegal Affiliates Chair. Then I find her Twitter profile (@DennySD) and learn that she's a "sometimes actress and singer," who got fabulous reviews as the star of "Everybody Loves Opal," a February 2009 Black Hills Community Theatre production.

It has always been my hope and intention to feature real working legal support staffers from all over the country to show the diversity in our profession, in education, experience, specialty areas, cultural backgrounds, gender, age - everything. So even if you try to tell me you're not interesting, I bet you are, and I'd love to have you do a profile.

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).