Publication Topics

Hiring

Hiring a Legal Assistant, Laches
• Hiring a legal assistant is a specialized task. Consideration must be given to the nature of the profession, the job description and management practices which will attract and retain the most qualified applicants.

Qualified Staff Essential to Automated Litigation Support, Michigan Lawyers Weekly
• Allowing unskilled professionals to take a stab at automation management can be a disaster. One legal assistant in a Fortune 500 company takes the lead on getting the request for proposal through training users.

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Management

The Fair Pay Regulations – What You Need to Know, International Paralegal Management Association
• Exempt versus non-exempt status for paralegals.

Trends in Management, National Law Journal
• Firms and corporations can maximize the productivity of their legal assistant staff by implementing a legal assistant manager. Systems differ from firm to firm.

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Utilization

Legal Assistant Utilization Survey, International Paralegal Management Association
• Survey of paralegal specializations

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Bottom Line

Marketing Legal Assistants as a Cost Efficient Alternative to Associates, Daniel Ray, Esq.
• Profitability of paralegals

Associates Versus Paralegals: The Shifting Balance of Profitability, D. Jeffrey Campbell, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman; Chair, American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Legal Assistants.
• Minimizing costly turnover among firm personnel is one of the primary benefits of leveraging a law firm with paralegals.

Paralegals: A Positive Bottom Line, Attorney Resource Guide
• Paralegal utilization has become a necessity to many law firms and corporations. Their use has revolutionized the way law is practiced, and the way clients expect to be serviced. The Bottom line? They make economic and practical sense.

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Career Marketing

Develop Your Credentials: Reach for Line Items, Laches
• Line items are things that you own. They are your assets. To make them happen ask yourself, “How can I be more useful? How can I improve my career?”

How to Advance Your Career, Michigan Paralegal
• Ten ways to work your professional goals forward

Careers in Transition, Legal Assistant Today
• Paralegals talk about some of the alternative positions they have pursued with their paralegal training and experience.

Career Positioning for Paralegals, Broward Brief, FLA, Inc.
• Career pathing is really career positioning and not at all like the traditional model found in multilevel organizations.

The Resume, Broward Brief, FLA, Inc.
• It is no easy task to condense your life accomplishments in a one-page document that begs for white space.

What Have You Accomplished? Keeping a Chronology of Your Work, NEWSBrief, LAAM
• It makes sense to keep a detailed chronology of your career in the same way you track the facts of a case.

Writing a Resume, Facts and Findings, NALA
• Your resume is what differentiates you as a unique and qualified professional.

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Regulation

Paralegal Regulation: Is it the Next Step? Laches
• Paralegals in Michigan have not sought out any kind of state or local method of regulation. Whether this is the next step in the evolution of the paralegal profession remains to be seen. 

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Job Title

SBM Legal Assistants Section Name Change, Michigan Paralegal
• What is the appropriate title for a Legal Assistant /Paralegal?

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