Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

At 68, this Future Paralegal is Determined to Graduate

Posted on May 30, 2008
Fifty years ago this month, Lula Mae Johnson dropped out of her rural South Carolina high school. She was a mediocre student, kept home twice a week to work on her family's farm, spreading manure over the cotton fields with...

Paralegal at the Center of a Request for Special Prosecutor

Posted on May 30, 2008
LAS CRUCES ? A request for a special prosecutor has been filed in the dog-fighting case against two El Paso men. Twin brothers Daron and Duryea Scott are facing 23 and 30 felony counts, respectively, for their alleged role in...

Paralegal/Chairman Helps Texas Kickapoo Rebuild After Corruption Scandal

Posted on April 29, 2008
EAGLE PASS, Texas - For Chairman Juan Garza, taking over leadership of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas with little experience at the height of a 2002 corruption scandal and financial disaster was no easy task. But he and the...

Paralegal Leads a Horse to Water

Posted on April 29, 2008
You lead your horse to water. Horse Quencher will make it drink. The product, created and sold by three horse-loving friends, has become a hit among equestrians and leisure riders for convincing their otherwise finicky friends to drink water, no...

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Paralegal with Liver Disease Sees Need for Organ Donors

Posted on April 29, 2008
Neither Vicki Pierce nor Bridget Moore had any symptoms. Pierce worked 12-hour shifts in the surgical intensive care unit. Moore played basketball in college and loved to exercise. Both said they were in good health at the time. Yet, at...

Paralegal Charged in LA for Unauthorized Legal Services

Posted on April 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- A Colorado-based paralegal was charged Monday with conspiracy and other counts for the unauthorized practice of law in a bankruptcy court, prosecutors said. Emmanuel Assaf, 42, is accused of violating laws that prohibit paralegals from advertising and...

Paralegal Student is a Forceful Voice in Autism Debate

Posted on April 29, 2008
Kathleen Seidel is not a doctor. She's not a medical researcher. She's not an educator. She's not a lawyer. But the 52-year old Peterborough woman, armed with a degree in library science and a healthy sense of outrage, has become...

Paralegal's Bra Design at the Center Of IP Dispute

Posted on April 29, 2008
NEW YORK (NYT) ? Hear the phrase "intellectual property," and the mind might wander to the epic struggle between the recording industry and Napster, or the more recent battle between J.K. Rowling and a fan who wanted to publish The...

Aspiring Paralegal Commuter Finds Longer Drive Worth Price

Posted on March 27, 2008
Despite rising gas prices, drivers across the state still cling to their zig-zag commutes. For many, it boils down to the disconnect between their two main hubs of life -- home and work. When The News & Observer asked drivers...

Paralegal "Indie" Game Designer to Show Off Creation

Posted on March 27, 2008
Portland has indie music, indie art, indie films. And, now, indie games. A growing number of local designers have put their spin on the role-playing and fantasy genre, publishing games such as "Beast Hunters" and "Panty Explosion" (which actually offers...

Paralegal Runs Community Meeting Cafe

Posted on March 27, 2008
DRYDEN ? Monica Knight admits that businesses on the village's main street are ?drying up and emptying out.? But she's not discouraged ? she sees it as a challenge. In a building surrounded by shuttered windows with ?For Rent? signs...

Paralegal Seeks House Seat

Posted on March 27, 2008
BRISTOL ? Hoping to follow in the footsteps of his well-known father, Christopher Wright declared this week he plans to seek election to northeast Bristol?s 77th state House district. Wright, 35 and a Democrat, said he wants to represent the...

One Paralegal's Path to the PACE Exam

Posted on March 27, 2008
I first learned of the Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam back in 2000 when I joined the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals. I was immediately intrigued. How great -- an exam to test the competency of paralegals. It was right up my...

KNOW Paralegal Magazine

Posted on February 25, 2008
A new and exciting magazine for paralegals premiers. KNOW, The Magazine for Paralegals is an outside-the-box, informative magazine balancing work style and lifestyle balance for paralegals. Designed for paralegals in today's highly competitive market, the publication offers tools, tactics and strategies for a successful work life and lifestyle balance...

Paralegal is Contestant on "Big Brother"

Posted on February 25, 2008
Debbie Hansen's 23-year-old daughter is living in a house in Los Angeles with 15 strangers.  She shares a bedroom with a man someone else chose as her soul mate. Not every mother would be happy about that.  It's OK with Hansen, because it's not real life -- it's a TV reality show...

One Paralegal's Extreme Commute

Posted on February 25, 2008
Kasandra Gonzalez could simply take one long express bus trip to work. Instead, the Staten Island resident chooses an extreme commute involving a bus, train and ferry, which is about 10 minutes longer but much cheaper.Rather than forking over $250 a month in express bus fares, Gonzalez, 23, spends $76 on a monthly MetroCard and takes advantage of the free Staten Island Ferry...

Cost Savings Drive Firms to Weigh Outsourcing to India

Posted on February 25, 2008
Merging your business with another company? Suing your competitor? Signing a lease on office space? In the coming years, there's a big chance someone in India will prepare your deposition or review your contract. Legal process outsourcing, or LPO, is gaining momentum among large corporations and law firms as companies increasingly look to cut costs and work for clients seven days a week, 24 hours a day...

Paralegal, Leigh Carter, 44, National Expert on Belgian Tervuren Breed of Shepherds

Posted on January 27, 2008
The dogs that won Leigh Carter's heart were a striking blend of substance and style. Always an animal lover, Ms. Carter had taken in stray cats, fostered cocker spaniels, even shouted for her father to hit the brakes whenever a squirrel dashed in front of their car...

Paralegal's Promising Career Was Just Starting But, Cut Short

Posted on January 27, 2008
NEW SCOTLAND -- This week, a young woman from Watervliet began work at a law firm, having been picked as the best and brightest of two dozen candidates for a paralegal's job. Two days later, she was dead, killed in a car crash along with a male passenger...

Paralegal/Hells Angel Member Detained for Ten Months and Counting

Posted on January 27, 2008
Their east Toronto clubhouse is padlocked, empty and sitting in a state of vacant disrepair. Some of their motorcycles have been seized, many full patch members are cooling their heels in jail and now their controversial website has been permanently closed...

Hawaii Supreme Court Considers Crackdown on "Paralegal" Businesses

Posted on January 27, 2008
At Legal-Ez, Betty Marais helps her customers fill out legal civil documents at rates far below what lawyers charge. She's not an attorney, and her business is built on giving clients easy access to the justice system without having to pay steep hourly rates...

Paralegal Cashed Checks, Suit Alleges

Posted on January 14, 2008
A paralegal charged with embezzling $1.2 million from her boss's trust account is accused of cashing dozens of checks worth hundreds of thousands and using part of the money to buy a house, a previously sealed civil suit alleges. Tammy Mann Kullnat, 49, of Indian Trail, has been in the Union County Jail since mid-December, when she turned herself in on a civil arrest warrant...

Chief Justice Suggests Paralegal Courses for Staff

Posted on January 14, 2008
Ho, Jan. 12 GNA- Mrs. Justice Georgina Wood, Chief Justice has called on legal brains and education planners to develop a middle-level paralegal course for ancillary staff of the Judicial Service to help improve the country's justice system.She said a good insight of work, procedures, and sense of mission by staff of the service were necessary in facilitating work at the courts towards making the country's Judiciary one of the best in the sub-region...

Paralegal Sues the NY Yankees

Posted on January 14, 2008
The New York Yankees claim to be the team "Where Players Become Legends."  Now, one die-hard fan is questioning the integrity of their catch phrase ? in court. Matthew Mitchell is suing the Yankees for $221 ? the exact amount he paid for tickets to five of the games he attended between 2002 and 2007...

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari for Landmark Right to Petition Case

Posted on January 14, 2008
On January 4, 2008, the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, in conference, voted to deny the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the landmark Right-to-Petition case We The People v. United States. On January 7 the Court issued its Order denying certiorari...

Tostada Dinner to Fete Paralegal Politician

Posted on January 03, 2008
The business of politics will be upon the 10th annual Joe T. Ulibarri Tostada dinner on Jan. 19. State Rep. Dorothy Butcher, D-Pueblo, will be the evening's focus as its roastee at the Latino Chamber Development Corp. Foundation fundraiser. Monies raised go to youth and business scholarships...

Paralegal Spends Her Days Tracking Down Millions

Posted on January 03, 2008
More than $20 million has been given back to its rightful owners this year, thanks to the hard work of Karen Musloski. Ms. Musloski is a supervisory paralegal in the U.S. attorney?s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which is based in Scranton...

Paralegals With IT Skills are Hot Commodity

Posted on January 03, 2008
With an ever-increasing focus on electronic document gathering for litigation, individuals with both paralegal skills and IT training are becoming a hot commodity in the legal field. This special type of paralegal, often known as litigation technology support staff, is in demand as law firms, litigation technology shops and corporations wade through the mountains of electronic data amassed before and during lawsuits...

Paralegal Cleared of Killing Parents

Posted on January 03, 2008
January 3, 2008 -- Martin Tankleff's nightmare is over. The Long Island man won't be retried for the murder of his parents, prosecutors said yesterday as they suddenly ended his harrowing, decades-long battle to clear his name. "It's finally over," a stunned Tankleff said when he learned the Suffolk County DA's Office had dropped his double-murder indictment...

2008 Paralegal Superstar Calendar NOW AVAILABLE

Posted on December 07, 2007
UPDATE: The 2008 Paralegal Superstar Calendar is now available at ParalegalGateway's online store.  Purchase it today! ParalegalGateway.com announced on Wednesday the names of the twelve individuals who will be featured on the 2008 Paralegal Superstar Calendar...

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