The Why and How of Paralegals Impressing Law Firm Clients
When potential clients first enter the law office where you work, their initial impressions of the firm are...
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Mentors and Mentoring in a Paralegal’s Life
As a paralegal professional, your employment entails many diverse duties and responsibilities. Your role...
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File Systems and Checklists for Better Paralegal Work
Few paralegals are born with the knowledge required to run a bustling law office (although some may give that...
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Tips for Paralegals to Conduct Perfect Client Interviews
After some time in your profession, one case begins to look like any other. While it may feel like that to you...
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A Paralegal’s Guide to Forming Client Interview Questionnaires
If you have been responsible for conducting in-depth interviews with clients, then you probably have developed...
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Three Tips for the Paralegal Profession
The paralegal profession can be tremendously challenging, time-intensive, and rewarding. But above all else,...
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Law School: The Decision
P rsh ndetje! When I asked you all to fill out my blog survey, I got a few responses asking for posts on law...
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Paulette Brown Headed to Be ABA’s First Afro-American Woman President
Prominent New Jersey lawyer of Afro-American descent, Paulette Brown, seems headed to become ABA’s first...
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Summer Jobs for Law Students
A successful experience at a summer organization can become a major weapon in the later recruitment battle....
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Legal Job Hunting for First and Second Years Law Students
If first- and second-year students ("Fs" and "Ss") have a more trying fight than third-year students in the...
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How Legal Professionals Can Use the Art of Telephoning
Telephoning is art at best and at worst clumsy hindrance. Telephoning can be effective at various times in the...
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Door-Knocking as a Tool for a Legal Professional
Door-knocking involves visiting offices unannounced, de-positing your resume and, rarely, speaking to a lawyer...
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Every Law Office Has Systems-habits
The purposes of systems and procedures for the administration of a law office and for the performance of legal...
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When a Legal Professional is Called for an Interview in another City
On many interviewing trips, you exist in a city for three days with no focus but the interviews and not much...
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Accounting & Timekeeping in Law Firms
Accounting and the allied process of timekeeping are among the primary tools of management in law firms. As...
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Legal Writing Styles that Lawyers Must Master
To write effectively, you must communicate effectively. Remember the discussion between the March Hare, the...
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How Should a Legal Professional’s Approach to Government Offices Be
The approach to government agencies, legislative offices, and public organizations varies slightly from the...
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Hiring a Legal Assistant
Certain preliminaries are important in hiring a legal assistant. You must know just what you want in the new...
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The Legal Purpose of an Appellate Brief
A former colleague once commented that an appellate brief is a document written by a disgruntled practitioner...
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Technological Invasion of the Legal Profession
Law is a paper-intensive business. Improvements in paper handling and production have always impacted the...
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Job Hunting Difficulties that Female Legal Professionals Face
Women may have lost somewhat the competitive advantage gained during the last ten years from the "reverse...
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Fees Lifeline of Law Practice
Fees are the lifeline of law practice. The relentless pressure of meeting overhead expenses and providing for...
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Various Kinds of Interviews that a Legal Professional Has to Deal With
The interview is the culmination of the initial phases of the search - investigation and application - and is...
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Varied Questions about Language That Lawyers Ask
Lawyers ask questions ranging from the subject of general English usage to the propriety of certain terms of...
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How to Make Law Practice Lucrative
One wag has stated that the best way for a lawyer to obtain new clients is to run well for an important public...
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Stage for Collecting Legal Fees
All of the marketing tools we have discussed are designed only to provide the lawyer with the opportunity to...
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Use of Secretaries and Receptionists in Law Job Hunt
Secretaries and receptionists are very useful during the law job hunt. They can also serve as enormous...
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Job Options: New Law Grads
If you plan to set up your own law office alone or with some other young lawyers, you can shorten the time...
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Law Firm Administration as a Career
The field of management of legal organizations holds career possibilities for some law students. As firms...
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What Exactly is Legal Reasoning
Most of us, no matter how modest we may be about our accomplishments, pride ourselves on our "good sense." And...
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