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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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