A Paralegal’s Guide to Working with a Legal Process Server
Although the server's work may be less detailed or expensive than that of the investigator, it's often just as...
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How a Paralegal Works with Private Investigators and Expert Witnesses
The idea of the cop befriending the private investigator is not new to television or the movies. These...
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A Paralegal’s Guide to Working More Effectively with Insurance Adjusters
If you look at the broad legal picture, nearly everything regulated by civil law is also covered by some form...
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The Evolution of the Paralegal Profession
The Paralegal Profession: Heightened and Accelerated Evolution
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A Paralegal’s Strategy to Successfully Work and Relate with Police Departments
Fact: Most police officers don't like attorneys! Fact: Many attorneys don't think much of the police...
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Why It’s Important to Thoroughly Examine Traffic Collision Reports
Some less conscientious police officers tend to believe that once a report leaves their ink-stained fingers...
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Traffic Collision Reports: Understanding the Jargon and Taking them Apart
Some career fields tend to be a bit heavy on jargon-computer science, engineering, insurance, and banking come...
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How to Go About Making Sense of a Police Report
With few exceptions, the two kinds of police reports that would most affect the general practice, personal...
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Seven Tips for Paralegals to Obtain Police Reports Easily
Police officers can neglect many important details while completing crime case and arrest reports. Faced with...
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Understanding the Components of a Police Arrest Report
While ordinary police reports like traffic collision reports tend to contain mostly factual data, police...
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The Importance of Police Reports and Why and When They Can be Sloppy
While police officers are given nearly free rein to do their jobs as they think best, they are also expected...
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WIAW-Yesterday
Creative title, right? Yep First off, I just wanted to say I am blown away at the response to my post...
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Legal Writing Style for Law School Students
Lawyers are constantly chided about “legalese,” a phrase that has come to mean verbosity and pomposity....
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Prosecution Caught Fudging Billing Records to Indict Dentist – Dentist Awarded $7.7 Million
On Tuesday, a Brooklyn jury refused to buy the arguments presented by lawyers from the attorney general’s...
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Importance of Outlining Process for Law Students
About three or four weeks after classes start, you should begin the outlining process. It is essential to...
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The Emotional Aspects of Law School
You will find the study of law is an endless well and can easily absorb your every waking moment (it may...
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Taking Your First Law School Exam
You’ve studied for the exam. You wake up feeling somewhat like Lindbergh on the morning of his flight. You...
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Tips for Getting Summer Clerkships for Law Students
After you survive your first year and return for your second, you’ll start hearing rumors about on-campus...
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The Purpose and Contents of Law Students’ Course Outline
Thomas Mann says in The Magic Mountain, “Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of...
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Preparing For and Taking Law Exams
Lawyers are constantly chided about “legalese,” a phrase that has come to mean verbosity and pomposity....
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Preparing for Law Exams
The bulk of the study process under the LCM system is simply stated:
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What is a Law School really like?
Those of you in your second semester and beyond or those with older brothers or sisters who have given you the...
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Law: The Institution for All Seasons
The comments, directives, admonitions (“Outline this way!” “Brief that way!”) that you’ve worked...
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Law School Ethics and the Law Review Experience
Not long after you begin classes, you will hear rumors about an institution within your school called the law...
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The Importance of Briefing Legal Cases
The process of writing case briefs, which are nothing more than synopses of court decisions, does four vital...
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laStudy Aids Available In Law Schools
One problem hampering your reading at first will be the unfamiliarity with legal vocabulary. It takes time to...
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Secrets of Conducting a Successful Witness Interview for Paralegals
Interviewing witnesses requires the same amount of careful preparation as interviewing clients, if not more...
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Four Office Management Tips for Paralegals
It's good news-bad news time. The good news is that the law firm you work for has a whole roomful of new...
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The Paralegal's Five D Organizing Method
Ask yourself the following questions every time you encounter a new case, a new problem, new correspondence,...
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Techniques for Questioning Witnesses and Recording Witness Statements for Paralegals
Good telephone etiquette can make the difference between getting some information from a cooperative, helpful...
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