Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

New York paralegal brings her Greyhound to work

Posted on June 30, 2009
?Bring your dog to work day? sounds like a great employee motivational treat to me, but New York paralegal Karen Coots, employed by attorney Frank Como in Waverly, gets to bring her Greyhound Star to work every day. Star is very laid back in the office, Coots said, and she added that Como doesn?t mind having her around, as Como used to have a Black Lab named Molly that came into the office with him...

Using Social Media: Today It Takes a Village to Succeed in the Paralegal Profession

Posted on June 28, 2009
Most of us are familiar with the African proverb, ?It takes a whole village to raise a child.? The phrase brings to mind a large and generous network of people, not just parents, but relatives, teachers, neighbors and mentors, working together to produce healthy, happy children who grow up to be productive members of our community ? and go on to guide the village?s next generation of children...

Attorney Requests Increased Restitution from Former Paralegal

Posted on June 28, 2009
Pennsylvania attorney Jeff Connelly, a victim of embezzlement by his former paralegal, has requested that the Erie County Court of Common Pleas increase the amount of her $300.00 per month court-ordered restitution payment. In April 2005, Kelly Mitchell (formerly Little), pled no contest to two counts of theft from Connelly?s firm and agreed to re-pay approximately $74,000...

Paralegal News Clips

Posted on June 28, 2009
?The following students graduated this spring with degrees in paralegal studies from Ivy Tech Community College in Richmond, Indiana: Amber Gallagher, Tricia Lee-Ellen Agnew, Jamie D. Minton, Jacob Jay Stephens, Deborah Lynn Westcott, and Diane M. Galey...

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Paralegal Posting of the Week: Disney Needs an Entertainment Paralegal

Posted on June 27, 2009
How many of you wanted to grow up to be a Disney princess, and are still secretly crushed that it never happened? Working for Disney in New York might go a long way toward easing your disappointment.Our Legal Department is looking for a Paralegal to assist the Attorneys in our New York office...

Tips for Paralegal Students

Posted on June 27, 2009
U.S. News & World Report?s Professors? Guide recently posted an excellent article, "9 Tips for Community College Students". While all of the tips are helpful to know prior to starting a community college program, the following tips are particularly useful for paralegal students...

California Paralegal?s Artist Daughter in Nebraska Foster Home

Posted on June 27, 2009
When I first read this story in the Omaha World-Herald, my initial thought was, ?This amazingly talented young girl gets the short end of the stick no matter how this plays out.? Alice Wang, 12, the daughter of California paralegal Charlotte Wu and visiting Stanford University scholar Suwen Wang, won the North American division of a painting competition sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme and Bayer Corporation...

Paralegal Shares Summer Reading Tips for Kids

Posted on June 27, 2009
Virginia paralegal and fiction editor of The Internet Review of Books Julie McGuire is like most moms. She wants to keep her kids reading when school's out, even if her kids are leaning toward the definition of "vacation" as a reading-free zone.But Julie's got some summer reading tips that will keep our kids begging for books:Keep it simple...

Paralegal Dog Walker Reverses Buffalo Blight

Posted on June 27, 2009
First, let me just say I?m jealous. Paralegal Julie Padak works for Buffalo, New York attorney Francis Letro, who brings his dog Barkley to work. If everyone brought their dogs to work, litigation would be a nicer place. Padak often gets the pleasure of getting out of the office for a ramble with a friendly dog...

Nancy W. Kappes (Paralegal) T-shirts

Posted on June 26, 2009
"Nancy W. Kappes (Paralegal) Effin' Rocks" might turn out to be the best-selling t-shirt in the history of paralegal merchandise - if there was such a t-shirt. (Warning: If expletives offend you, don't read any further because they form the basis of Nancy's sentence structure...

Robert Half Legal?s New White Paper: Law Offices Face New Challenges

Posted on June 25, 2009
Robert Half Legal, a staffing service for legal professionals, has released a new white paper, Delivering Value-Added Legal Services in Challenging Times, summarizing research results from the firm's ninth annual Future Law Office project.Key findings include:Demand for legal services is growing in practice areas such as bankruptcy, litigation, intellectual property and environmental law...

Legal Nurse Consultant Profile: Abbie Citron RN BSN CLNC

Posted on June 25, 2009
Job Title: Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantEmployer: Owner of Citron & Associates Legal Nurse Consulting, Los Angeles, CAYears of Legal Nurse Consultant Experience: 2+ YearsSpecialty Areas: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability (Really, any type of law where health or injury is involved)Career Highlight: Using my many years of bedside nursing experience to build a successful legal nurse consulting practice...

Paralegal News Clips

Posted on June 25, 2009
? Attorney Jim Smith has been appointed as the interim coordinator for Arizona Western College?s paralegal programs. Smith helped start the program two and a half years ago and stated, ?"There are a lot of jobs in the profession that are not necessarily attorney...

Washington Paralegal Charged with Assault During Flight

Posted on June 23, 2009
Sherilee ?Leesa? Van Zandt, a paralegal employed by the City of Spokane, has been charged in Spokane County District Court with assaulting an Alaska Airlines flight attendant ?in a drunken, profanity-laced tirade.? Police say that Van Zandt claimed to be a city prosecutor when they tried to calm her...

Ex-Attorney Working as Paralegal Charged with Theft

Posted on June 23, 2009
Former Ohio attorney Barry Brickley has been charged in Richland County Common Pleas Court with theft, forgery and receiving stolen property, due to allegedly writing $10,555.00 worth of checks to himself while working as a paralegal for local attorney Randy Fry...

California Legal Assistant's Award-Winning Ribs

Posted on June 23, 2009
Rosie Hamilton is a member of Tehama County CattleWomen.She has been a legal assistant at McGlynn, McGlynn & Bottke Attorneys at Law for 15 years.She and husband Fred have a beef cattle ranch in Vina, where son Mike is the irrigator.Their daughter Jamie is studying to be a LVN in Fortuna...

Paralegals in the News

Posted on June 22, 2009
Florida resident Ana Vazquez received a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from the University of Miami in June 2009. Within a few weeks of graduation, she obtained her first paralegal position at a criminal defense firm in Fort Lauderdale.Anthony J. Iannini, a litigation paralegal in Saul Ewing LLP's Wilmington office and an adjunct professor at the Widener University Law Center's Legal Education Institute, has received the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award from the university...

?Cyber Graves?: Give Your Executor Your Facebook Password

Posted on June 22, 2009
When I came across the article, ?Cyber graveyards a growing problem for legal professionals?, I realized I had never given the question much thought, but what happens to our Facebook (and other social media profiles) when we?re no longer in the land of the living?CYBER graves are presenting a growing problem for legal professionals who urge people to leave their social network passwords with their executors in case they die...

The Paralegal Picture: Best Quotes for the Week Ending 06/21/09

Posted on June 21, 2009
I did several posts on stress-eating this week, which seems to be a hot issue in the news."I should just put them down on the seat and sit on them. That's where they're going to go ? on my behind. I eat them because it makes me feel better." ~ California paralegal Leslie Fuller admits that she?s having trouble sticking to her grocery list and is stress-eating, throwing candy in her cart instead...

Iowa Legal Assistant is a ?Guerrilla Gardener?

Posted on June 21, 2009
When we think of gardening as a stress-relieving activity, we usually think of enjoying it on our own property, but legal assistant Olenka Gadzik plants flowers and vegetables on other people?s property in Davenport, Iowa, a form of unsolicited ?guerrilla gardening?...

Paralegal Profile: Kristina Duncan, Freelance Paralegal and Law Student-to-Be

Posted on June 21, 2009
Job Title: Freelance/Virtual ParalegalEmployer: Self-employed at Paralegal Associates, San Diego, CAYears of Paralegal Experience: 2+Specialty Areas: Civil litigation, personal injury, employment law ? learning environmental lawCareer Highlight: Starting my freelance business and having it actually take off...

This Paralegal Has a Skeleton in Her Closet

Posted on June 19, 2009
Many of the great professional bloggers recommend that you develop a relationship with your readers by occasionally sharing information about yourself. So I?ve decided to take the plunge and share my deepest, darkest secret.I have a skeleton in my closet...

Paralegal Posting of the Week: Work for Petsmart

Posted on June 18, 2009
If you?ve got a passion for pets and are interested in seeking employment with the legal department of a major retailer, Petsmart in Phoenix, Arizona is seeking a Senior Paralegal to work with Senior Legal Counsel on its Human Resources team. The job description indicates that this position will be challenging but offers the right person a variety of interesting job duties...

Free eBook for Electronic Discovery Practitioners

Posted on June 17, 2009
New ?Considering Meet and Confer? eBook Available for Electronic Discovery PractitionersFree eBook Provides Notes, Articles, and References to Help Educate and Support Legal and IT Professionals Considering FRCP Rule 26(f)LegalTech West 2009 Conference, Booth #120SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orange Legal Technologies, a leading electronic discovery provider of one source litigation, audit, and investigation support services for law firms and corporations seeking insight on electronically stored information, today announced the release of a compilation of notes, articles, and references in the form of a 44-page eBook that provides electronic discovery practitioners ? both legal and IT ? a general overview of planning considerations and practical application of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) ?Meet and Confer? requirements...

Incisive Legal Intelligence and IPMA Release 2009 Paralegal Compensation Survey

Posted on June 16, 2009
Incisive Legal Intelligence, a leading source of business intelligence for the legal profession, in partnership with the International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA), today announced the release of the Annual Compensation Survey for Paralegals/Legal Assistants and Managers, 2009 Edition, tracking compensation, billing rates and billable hours for paralegals...

North Carolina Paralegal Attends Tony Awards

Posted on June 16, 2009
At the 2009 Tony Awards, David Alvarez, one of three Tony-winning Billy Eliots, said upon receiving his trophy, "We have to put these back, though, and they give us, like, a real one."Susie Grimm, a North Carolina paralegal, was there to experience the real Tony Awards in New York City and saw Billy Elliot, The Musical win the award for Best Musical, with her two children, Dori and Josh...

Paralegals Tweet Fast Food Faves for Stress Relief

Posted on June 15, 2009
I know I just wrote a post about handling work stress by walking and bringing your own healthy snacks, but what's a working paralegal to do when faced with a genuine need to hide in her car at lunch with a Sookie Stackhouse novel and the opposite of celery?So, today I tweeted (for God knows who to see, including hello-is-my-boss-on-Twitter-too?), ?Sometimes I deal with the pressures of litigation by sneaking out to Sonic and eating cheese fries alone in my car...

Arizona Paralegal Charged with Perjury

Posted on June 15, 2009
Arizona resident Nora Liliana Skinner Reyes, a Paralegal Specialist employed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has been indicted in U.S. District Court in Tuscon for allegedly making false statements during an employee security interview.Reyes allegedly denied that she had been terminated from her part-time employment at Bank of America for misconduct arising out of the theft of bank monies...

Practical Paralegalism's Top 50 Twitter Feeds for Paralegals

Posted on June 14, 2009
While there are many, many delightful and knowledgeable Tweeps who tweet especially for legal professionals, there are some who seem to make it their life?s mission to consistently, thoughtfully and succinctly, within the 140-character limit, provide information that paralegals can use, whether it be social media or career tips, the latest legal news, specialty information, practice tips, continuing education opportunities, great blog posts, or simply moments in the daily life of a working paralegal...

Legal Assistant Fights to Change Virginia Comp Law in Death Cases

Posted on June 14, 2009
Claire Pierce, a Virginia legal assistant, has taken on the Virginia legislature in an effort to change state law to expand the current presumption that when a worker dies immediately at a work site it is work-related, to include those who do not die immediately at the scene and are unable to testify on their own behalf...

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