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Charleston Association of Legal Assistants Upcoming events: • Membership meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month. Attendees can earn CLE credits for their participation in the luncheons. Notes: • CALA is now on Facebook. Log in to the ...
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National Association News March 2011
National Association of Legal Assistants Notes: • NALA Campus LIVE provides online educational courses for paralegals. The courses are offered during two sessions per year. Twelve of the 44 courses offered through the program are recommended as preparation for the ...
Read More »Book review: ‘Typography for Lawyers’
Lawyers seeking to optimize their work by making use of typography can look to the recently released "Typography for Lawyers" as a guide. Matthew Butterick, a civil litigator in California with a visual arts background and experience as a font designer, argues that typography matters because it can help hold readers' attention. An attorney making an oral argument wouldn't dress in jeans and sneakers and speak in a monotone, he analogizes; it's not just the words, it is the presentation as well.
Read More »‘Showboating’ by attorneys is unnecessary, Abernathy says
Ellen Abernathy is a paralegal with Hall & Hall in Morganton, N.C. She is certified through the North Carolina State Bar and is a member of the N.C. Advocates for Justice. Here, she describes the challenges of working in family law.
Read More »Technology: ‘Get to know it so you don’t blow it,’ SC paralegal advises
Wendy MacDonald is a civil litigation paralegal for Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd in Greenville, S.C., where she primarily focuses on defense work in medical malpractice cases. MacDonald graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her paralegal certificate from the Denver Paralegal Institute. Outside of work, she also volunteers as a tutor and a tutor trainer for Greenville Literacy Association.
Read More »Paralegal’s goal for 2011 is same as last year’s – to stay employed
Kathy McDermott is an intellectual property paralegal for Coats and Bennett in Cary, N.C. She primarily focuses on U.S. and foreign patent work. McDermott received a certificate in paralegal studies from the University of Colorado and is currently pursuing a degree in criminal justice technology at Wake Technical Community College. She is a member of the Research Triangle Paralegal Association and the N.C. Bar Association's Paralegal Division.
Read More »Managing client expectations is one of the toughest parts of the job, paralegal says
Maritza Muehleisen is a paralegal with Christian & Davis in Greenville, S.C. She received her paralegal degree from Greenville Technical Community College in 2006. Here, she tells Carolina Paralegal News about how helping her mother become a U.S. citizen motivated her to become a paralegal.
Read More »Spotlight – Candace Russell
Candace Russell, a paralegal with Nexsen Pruet's Charlotte office, recently received her advanced certified paralegal designation from the National Association of Legal Assistants. Russell is also a participant of NALA's 2011 Leadership Enhancement and Preparation class and an officer in the Metrolina Paralegal Association.
Read More »Attorney: Thank you, paralegals
In a recent Q&A interview with Lawyers Weekly (a sister publication of CPN), South Carolina attorney Marcy J. Lamar made a special point of acknowledging how hard paralegals work. Here's what she had to say: Q: Which job would you not want to have and why? Lamar: The legal job I would not want to have is that of a paralegal as I believe their job is much tougher than that of an attorney. Paralegals must know all the particulars of the rules and procedures of the field of law in which they are working. They are responsible for knowing every deadline and making sure their attorney is properly notified of all deadlines.
Read More »In the Spotlight
On Dec.10, four paralegals from Ted A. Greve and Associates in North Carolina went to lend a hand at the Operation Christmas Child Processing Center in Charlotte. They put together a box for a boy between the ages of 9 ...
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Read More »Q&A: CLE needs to be fun, not a day’s worth of ‘dry speakers’ and ‘crummy food’
Stephanie Elliott-Park is a paralegal with Gray, Layton, Kersh, Solomon, Furr & Smith in Gastonia, N.C. She has been working in the field for 14 years and is a member of NALA, the Paralegal Division of the N.C. Bar Association ...
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Read More »Q&A: When mistakes happen, learn and move on
Lee Weiland is a paralegal in the litigation practice group at McAngus Goudelock & Courie in Columbia, S.C. In 2003, Weiland received her bachelor’s degree in media communications from College of Charleston and later earned her paralegal certificate from Midlands ...
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Read More »Q& A: Shaking off office pressure comes with ‘age, wisdom and experience’
Donna Parker Meadows is a paralegal for attorney Ernest L. Conner Jr. at Graham Nuckolls & Brown in Greenville, N.C. For her first 15 years of employment at the firm, Meadows focused on criminal law and family law. Now, her work concentrates ...
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Read More »Eggs, coffee and a Ziploc bag: Recipe for cert exam success
By SYLVIA ADCOCK, CPN Staff Writer [email protected] I guess I owe it to Ziploc bags and my mom’s cooking. I had it all planned out. I thought I could start studying for the North Carolina State Bar’s paralegal certification exam ...
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Read More »Want to learn the ropes at a law office? Say yes – a lot
By ERICA C. McADOO, Special to CPN I loved working in a law firm the first day I started. I think I made copies for about eight hours … on a Saturday … for free. But I did it with ...
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