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When Wendy Kindley saw an email from one of her law firm’s partners pop up in her mailbox, she noticed right away that it looked strange. “It appeared to be from our managing director, whose name is J. Scott Dillon, ...

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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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Bonnie Ruffin grew up in Wilson, North Carolina, dreaming of becoming an attorney. But along the way, she decided to pursue a career as a paralegal, and has excelled. She owns her own consulting business and is serving a term ...

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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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A stay-at-home mom with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music, Allison Yezek was newly divorced when she decided to following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather, who was a judge, and her uncle, who is a lawyer. Today, she ...

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 ...

M. Tyler Helms has not only survived being a 2008 Recession graduate, he has thrived. Within two years of graduating from Pfeiffer University he was laid off from two jobs. His first lay-off led him to move from his hometown ...

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 ...

As a paralegal in a solo practitioner’s office, Beverly King Moore does it all, from legal work to accounting to answering the phone.   The North Carolina native grew up in Lincoln County, where she was active in her high ...

After a decade in teaching, Kris Lineberger found her dream job at a Charlotte law firm. Lineberger, who grew up in Gastonia, N.C., earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Appalachian State University. ...

Charity Inglis calls herself a “true Carolina girl.” A lifelong North Carolina resident, she grew up in Hamlet, a small town in the central region of the state known for its historic train depot. A paralegal for over 10 years, ...

If stress is the health epidemic of our era, learning how to help one another could be the most powerful cure for what ails us Amanda Davis remembers the day she committed to kindness. Her journey started in an unlikely ...