Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

Gathering Thoughts

Posted on March 27, 2011
It’s been an exhausting week. 12-14-hour days, meetings with HR and Big Boss, disappointing news on stock options, calls from recruiters. Sigh… Crazy chick was unable to prove her claim to HR that i was withholding tools necessary to do her job...

Unpause

Posted on March 19, 2011
So, it’s done. I’ve been accepted to Concord and the California Bar has waived the FYLSE and given me credit for 1L. Will have to repeat Civ Pro because of the state bar treatment and Property because CA requires one year instead of 1/2. I don’t have a problem with that...

Weekly MILP Roundup #194

Posted on March 14, 2011
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday. Next week Proto Attorney will have it. Thanks Infant Attorney this is funny Glee/law school stuff! LEO drank [...

Unnecessary Drama, Continued

Posted on March 12, 2011
Okay, WTF?!? Why are all my posts add-ons to other posts? Yeah, more drama abounds. But not from the former colleague mentioned. No… This time it’s the colleague who has been working with us for about a year, “took over” for me while I was on leave and has generally been confused from day one, [...

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Mean Mommy, Take Two

Posted on March 12, 2011
Apparently I’m a bad mother for keeping my kid constantly on restriction. Thank you, Mother. Um, did it occur to anyone that as much as I adore the little rascal, he KEEPS MESSING UP?!?! So this week, Pumpkinhead came home one day and something was off...

Mean Mommy

Posted on February 27, 2011
My child is grounded. Again. And Mr. V and I are both at a loss for what to do. We’ve been working with Pumpkinhead on personal responsibility – keeping his room clean, which means laundry picked up and put in hamper (not stuffed under couch), trash put in one of two garbage cans (not thrown [...

Unnecessary Drama

Posted on February 27, 2011
Well this week was weird to say the least and now I’m on “time out” at work. Geez. While I was on maternity leave, a woman started in a position similar to mine in a sister group within our department. She was “trained” by Resentful and Bitter former colleague who was always convinced all tasks [...

Weekly MILP Roundup #191

Posted on February 21, 2011
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday. Next week Proto Attorney will have it. Any of the other new mommy MILPs have their hair falling [...

Weekly MILP Roundup #189

Posted on February 07, 2011
This week’s MILP Roundup is up at Attorney Work Product. The Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and Butterflyfish blogs and is usually posted by Monday each week.

Laziness Abounds

Posted on February 07, 2011
Okay, either I am too Type A for my own good, my ego is too overblown, or else I am correct – some of my coworkers are morons. One just left. Not a big loss, as she mostly bitched about how tasks were beneath her, not part of her job or not worthy of her [...

Reverse Dating

Posted on February 05, 2011
Parenthood is hard enough but add it to new marriage and certain aspects just really suck. Like non-Mommy/Daddy time, for example. Between cosleeping Baby J and bust-the-door-down Pumpkinhead, “quality time” is pretty much nonexistent. If you throw in Mr...

Weekly MILP Roundup #188

Posted on January 30, 2011
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday. Next week Proto Attorney will have it. Proto Atty is spread thin...

Happy Baby

Posted on January 24, 2011
Baby J started daycare this past week. I cried. Then proceeded to have an insane, barely seeing him week due to a conference at work. Fortunately he made it through unscathed. Mr V. dropped in to see him at lunch between teaching classes and said he was cooing and grinning...

Weekly MILP Roundup #187

Posted on January 24, 2011
This week’s MILP Roundup is up at Butterflyfish’splace. The Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and Butterflyfish blogs and is usually posted by Monday each week.

Weekly MILP Roundup #186

Posted on January 18, 2011
This week’s MILP Roundup is up at Attorney Work Product. The Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and Butterflyfish blogs and is usually posted by Monday each week.

iPad, how I love thee

Posted on January 16, 2011
Mr. V was very good to me this Christmas. I got a beautiful pair of diamond studs, something I had always wanted. My second set of ear piercings finally got used 17 years after they first came to be and now my ears are permanently sparkly, great on days when I don’t want to use [...

Toy Joy

Posted on January 16, 2011
Less than a month until Valentines Day and only four short ones until Masturbation Month. My preparations include treating myself to a new book of erotica and one of the new Lelo line toys, a personal favorite for their strength, hypoallergenic materials and rechargeable features...

What Makes Me Happy

Posted on January 15, 2011
I love the work I’m doing right now. It involves working to ensure that employees in my company are working within the bounds of a US federal law that governs our activities globally. I write policy, develop procedures, administer training, etc...

ABA-Accredited Online LLM

Posted on January 15, 2011
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego is the only law school in the country to offer an entirely online LLM that is also accredited by the ABA? Their LLM in International Tax & Financial Services has 7 concentration areas, one of which is the area in which I currently [...

Sweet!

Posted on January 15, 2011
So presuming the ABA doesn’t change its accreditation requirements in the next few years, I still have options. DC, for example, would let me sit for its bar thanks to the time I’ve already put in at my former law school: An applicant who graduated from a law school not approved by the American Bar [...

New Year, Much Happier

Posted on January 15, 2011
This time last year I was dealing with a really screwed up boss (fired a few weeks later) and a promotion of sorts, wondering how that “promotion” would play out. I have to say that it really has worked out much better than I could have imagined...

More on Options

Posted on January 10, 2011
I talked to Concord today to learn more about their program. Then I spent the evening researching my options regarding the practice of law in my state with a California license. Basically I can practice law inside any state’s corporation as long as I don’t give advice on the state law for anyone but the [...

Weekly MILP Roundup #185

Posted on January 10, 2011
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday. Next week Proto Attorney will have it. Butterflyfish is hoping for that magic number! Googie Baba has a [...

Losing the Game?

Posted on January 09, 2011
If you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning (fall 2006), you know that I started attending the part-time program at a T2 law school in May 2007 while working full-time, raising a then-3/4 year-old and dealing with a failing marriage. I soon found that many of my colleagues weren’t working full-time – SAHMs, waiters, [...

Unsolicited

Posted on January 08, 2011
Did I ask you?!? i swear that thought has run across my mind more often since giving birth to Baby J than it has in years. What is it about new parenthood that indicates to people that you would like to hear their thoughts/criticism? I don’t mind advice or tips but what is with the [...

Ponytails and Clutter

Posted on January 07, 2011
I forgot. I’ll admit it. When Pumpkinhead was an infant, life was a blur. I got a perm so I could avoid dealing with my hair. And that was back in my 20s when I had a job, not a career. Now I wake at 5 a.m., pull Baby J off the boob he’s been [...

2010 Recap

Posted on January 06, 2011
A little late. H/T @ Ana and Pseudostoops. 1. What did you do in 2010 that you?d never done before? Spent 4 months working from home uber-successfully even though ill. Love technology, love my bosses and love a career that doesn’t require 24/7 face time...

Weekly MILP Roundup #184

Posted on January 04, 2011
This week’s MILP Roundup is up at

Weekly MILP Roundup #183

Posted on December 27, 2010
This week’s MILP Roundup is up at Attorney Work Product. The Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and Butterflyfish blogs and is usually posted by Monday each week.

Weekly MILP Roundup #182

Posted on December 21, 2010
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, Attorney Work Product and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday. Next week Proto Attorney will have it. LL is surrounded by sugar, spice and everything nice! Magic Cookie [...

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