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According to an annual digital assets survey conducted by online security company McAfee, 55 percent of survey respondents claim to keep assets on their devices that are impossible to re-create, download or purchase again. When counseling individuals and families to ...

RICHMOND, VA — Go to a Disney theme park and you will understand the client experience. From the moment you touch their world until the moment you leave it, Disney wants you to have a uniformly high-quality, distinctively Disney time. ...

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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Navigating the family law system can be an overwhelming and emotional process, especially for people who have no choice but to represent themselves in court. The number of pro se litigants has steadily increased across the ...

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The New Year has barely started, and at the North Carolina State Bar offices in Raleigh, Joy Belk is up to her elbows in paralegal certification applications and renewals. As the State Bar’s assistant director for paralegal certification, Belk is ...

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Relying on a 2011 decision in an out-of-state federal court, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled Jan. 5. that the time spent by paralegals working on a Social Security case is compensable but must not ...

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Staying organized is a way of life for Jennifer Eason. She believes in to-do lists, calendars and tickler systems to keep her work straight and on target. But that’s not all. “At the end of each day, I create a ...

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Joslin Davis, a principal attorney with Allman Spry Davis Leggett and Crumpler of Winston-Salem, has been elected president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a national organization comprised of more than 1,600 divorce and family law attorneys Anna P. ...

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New York-based New Media Investment Group said Friday it has an agreement to purchase the Business Information Division of Dolan LLC, the Minneapolis-based parent of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly and and South Carolina Lawyers Weekly, which publish Carolina Paralegal News, ...

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When James E. Edwards Jr. first began practicing law in 1982, he quickly learned to delegate certain tasks — such as transcribing and typing up documents — to his legal secretary. “One of the senior partners came by and said, ...

Lynne DeVenny found herself in the fight of her life when her adopted daughter’s sickle cell anemia reached such a critical stage it took a life-saving bone marrow transplant to cure her.   But the battle didn’t end when DeVenny’s ...

Stephanie Neely is an artist. That nomenclature has been years in the making, although Neely has considered herself an artist at heart since she was a small child, a pint-sized fan of the then-Baltimore Colts, using colored pencils and crayons ...

Ignoring stress can be person’s undoing. Fjällräven Kånken Ryggsäckar Take it from someone who has come undone.   Jim Blackburn is living his life in Technicolor these days, but he walked a long hard road to get out of the ...

The trends are clear and undeniable, so paralegals should make 2014 the year they become masters of technology. Camille Stell is going to the movies in 2014 — at least as far as her video camera will take her. “I ...

Across the country, immigration attorneys, paralegals and other support staff are mobilizing to offer pro bono and low-cost legal options for the undocumented immigrants flooding across the southern United States border seeking asylum from violence in Central America.   Among ...

Workplace conflict can wreak havoc with office culture, especially if it is ignored or handled improperly. Communication breakdowns and lower productivity can result; such situations also breed unhealthy relationships. And the work product is bound to be affected. Distractions. When ...