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Kudos to the DOJ for Acknowledging Paralegal Participation

Posted on February 26, 2008
Halleleujah! Rarely do law firms or corporations acknowledge contribution of paralegals when a major case is won. Paralegals may work until midnight for months giving up weekends, holidays and birthdays but how often do we see their names mentioned when...

New Magazine for Paralegals

Posted on February 20, 2008
A new and exciting magazine for paralegals will launch in June, 2008. KNOW, The Magazine for Paralegals is an outside-the-box, informative magazine balancing workstyle and life balance for paralegals. Designed for paralegals in today's highly competitive market, the publication offers...

The Billable Hour: Albatross for Paralegals As Well

Posted on February 20, 2008
Practically every day, in one legal publication or another, you're going to read about how the billable hour will eventually meet its demise. Whether this occurs in the next 10-20 years is questionable. What we do know, is that CorporateAmerica...

Oops! There Go the Paralegal Jobs?

Posted on February 12, 2008
Finally, a firm that is honest about what it's doing. Only, I'm not so sure this is good news for paralegals. It may be good news for graduate students in India and for clients opting for lower cost legal fees....

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New Niche for e-Discovery: Special Masters

Posted on February 11, 2008
I'm telling you, when a field pops, it really pops. Apparently, the increased use of electronic discovery has resulted in a new set of practitioners: e-discovery special masters. According to The Daily Record, a special master is an officer of...

Paralegal Falsely Posing As Lawyer Wins 50 Cases

Posted on February 01, 2008
Now here's an interesting situation: Brian Valery, a paralegal working for Anderson, Kill, a pretty large firm in Washington, D.C. ups and decides he's going to tell his colleagues and supervisors that he's going to law school. After a time,...

Paralegals Helping Women in Bangladesh

Posted on January 26, 2008
Paralegals exist in third world countries and are often the heroes of the villages. A fascinating article in The New Nation, illustrates just how important paralegals are to one village in Bangladesh. Banchte Shekha: Development Program for Women and Children...

The Economic Crisis: Yes, You May Be Affected

Posted on January 25, 2008
You can't get away from the news: the legal market is beginning to slow quite dramatically. Especially hard hit have been paralegals and attorneys working in the securities, finance and real estate sectors. Not to mention what's happening out here...

Litigation Paralegals: Safe from Recession?

Posted on January 18, 2008
With the doom and gloom news about slow growth and possible recession swirling around us, there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Wait! It's not a train coming at us. It's actually good news. According...

Where Were the Paralegals? BigFirm Sues E-Discovery Vendor

Posted on January 10, 2008
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Or, maybe it's happened and we just don't know about it. A dispute between Sullivan & Cromwell and e-discovery vendor, Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED) has escalated into all out war as...

Paralegal in Middle of Conflict of Interest Controversy

Posted on January 08, 2008
It?s not unusual for a firm to use tough tactics when litigating a case. But tough tactics cost Patricia Dillman, (a litigation support manager who came up through the ranks as a paralegal) her job. This story seems to be...

Airlines to Appeal Passenger Bill of Rights

Posted on December 28, 2007
If you have ever spent more than 3 hours waiting on a tarmac, trapped in a huge metal contraption with screaming babies, no food, overflowing toilets and stale air, you will definitely view the Airlines as the Monster of the...

Nonlawyer Contract Experts: New Wave for Paralegals?

Posted on December 20, 2007
A boutique business law firm for life sciences companies is luring clients with a lower-rate structure that relies on nonlawyer contract experts for template contract work. Waltham, Mass.-based Faber Daeufer & Rosenberg has attracted more than 200 clients since its...

Paralegals in China: Profession Develops from Toy Scandal

Posted on December 14, 2007
The toy recalls coming out of China apparently have more consequences than U.S. citizens seem to realize. According to an article written in YaleGlobal online, not often noted in the uproar was that the toys shipped from China are mostly...

Secondments: Everything Old is New Again

Posted on December 08, 2007
A brand new term, secondments, the transfer of employees from one organization to another on a temporary basis has sprung up in the corporate world. The reality is, this lending of employees from law firms to in-house legal departments is...

Happiness Comes to Firms in Small But Important Perks

Posted on November 23, 2007
Sometimes it's just the small things that matter. When workdays stretch into worknights and the pressure to meet the quota for billable hours grows, lawyers and paralegals at the firm of Perkins Coie can often expect a little bonus. The...

Brand New Position: Chief Sustainability Officer

Posted on November 17, 2007
Law firms may be more in dire need of a Chief De-Stress Officer but Nixon Peabody announced that it has appointed its first Chief Sustainability Officer. This week the firm appointed Carolyn S. Kaplan, an attorney in Nixon Peabody's energy...

Florida Enacts Voluntary Registration for Paralegals - Trend Towards Regulation Gets Hotter

Posted on November 16, 2007
For those of you who are dismissing the idea of paralegal regulation, now's the time to sit up and take notice! Recently, Florida enacted a voluntary Registered Paralegal Program that regulates who can be called a paralegal. The program requires...

Paralegal's Failure to Comply with Regulation Results in Serious Consequences

Posted on November 09, 2007
According to an article in the Los Angeles Paralegal Reporter (originally printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal) by Stacey Hunt and Michael R. Jencks, attorneys and paralegals need to sit up and take notice of three recent decisions out...

New York Paralegal Named Director for Theatre of the Deaf

Posted on November 06, 2007
Aaron Kubey is the new executive director-president of the National Theatre of the Deaf, which has gone through financial crises, leadership changes and relocations in the past few years. Kubey, a paralegal in a New York law firm, is currently...

Can McDermott Will & Emery's Drop in Associate Salaries Cause Ripple in Paralegal Hires?

Posted on November 02, 2007
With soaring associate salaries in BigFirms reaching $160,000 per year for first years, something had to give. McDermott Will & Emery, a 1,000 attorney firm, announced it was creating a new class of associates. Instead of turning to contract attorneys...

Fulbright & Jaworski's New Litigation Survey Reports Drop in Number of Litigation Matters Against U.S. Corporations

Posted on October 30, 2007
Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, has released its Fourth Annual Litigation Trends Survey of more than 300 corporations within the U.S. and U.K. This report is the largest conducted of business litigation matters. According to the survey, while litigation between employers...

Salaries for Sr. Paralegals Expected to Increase 6.1%

Posted on October 24, 2007
Declining law school enrollments have had a positive effect on the paralegal field. A new salary survey issued by Robert Half Legal predicts that the demand for non-lawyers with competent skill levels is in higher demand, forcing salaries to increase...

DTI Global Offers Olive Branch - and Apology

Posted on October 15, 2007
Power of the written word. Thanks to all of you who wrote, called and came over to me at the Santa Clara Paralegal Association's annual event where I was a keynote speaker this weekend. Failure to stand up and say...

DTI Global crashes the SuperConference and Tries to Defend Its Actions

Posted on October 08, 2007
Last week at the Atlanta Paralegal SuperConference, a sales rep from DTI Global (Document Technology Inc.) showed up at the Paralegal SuperConference and helped himself to every activity that vendors generally pay approximately $1500.00. Leslie Lumpkins, a sales rep from...

40 New Women Paralegals in Israel Work on $8 Billion U.S. Deal: Similarities to U.S. Paralegals Uncanny

Posted on September 28, 2007
An article today in The Jerusalem Post revealed that 40 new Israeli women paralegals worked long hours on an $8 billion U.S. real estate deal. The training sponsored by the Development Center for the Employment of Haredim, (an Orthodox sect...

Outsourcing to India? Lawyers from India don't like it anymore than lawyers from the U.S.

Posted on September 24, 2007
Apparently, not all lawyers in India are crazy about the outsourcing trend heating up in India and other lower-cost developing nations. According to Merinews, written from India, Legal Process Outsourcing is the latest and hottest trend. Big corporations are reaping...

Paralegals Leading the Boomer Pack?

Posted on September 04, 2007
The Maine Biz Daily reported today that Maine will soon be among those states with a shortage in workers as seemingly an overwhelming number of its residents are running with the Baby Boomer pack. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, director of the Center...

Possible layoffs for corporate paralegals in the near future?

Posted on August 28, 2007
An article this week by the Legal Intelligencer citing possible associate layoffs in the corporate, mergers & acquisitions and securities arena failed to mention the trickle down effect on paralegals. Surely, anyone with just a few years of experience recalls...

Fashion Sense? Major Firms Capture Boutique Biz - New Opportunities for Paralegals?

Posted on August 24, 2007
Here's a great example of new opportunities opening for paralegals: The Daily Report (Atlanta) ran a story today that talks about Loeb & Loeb (my old alma mater) and other major Los Angeles firms that have opened a new fashion...

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