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By Teri Saylor  Terri Coker was overcome with emotion when she realized she was receiving a national mentorship award from NALS – the National Association of Legal Support Staff at its annual conference last fall in Charlotte. She remembers the ...

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Mother of five children, native of El Monte, Calif., and paralegal at the Solomon Law Group in Columbia, S.C., Cassandra Furtick followed a winding path into her career. She spent most of her growing up years in Swansea and graduated ...

  By Teri Saylor  Khovaja Samir Seddiqi knows what hope and resilience feel like when your life is suddenly defined by grief and uncertainty.   He lost everything when the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government amidst the United States military withdrawal ...

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  By Teri Saylor Yazmeen Gadalla has been a paralegal for just five years and already is making an impact on the profession in her role as chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Paralegal Division. It’s still early in ...

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Below is a list of officials with the North Carolina Bar Association’s Paralegal Division. Note: This an excerpt of a recent blog post from chairperson Yazmeen Gadalla. Lakisha Chichester, vice chair Lakisha Chichester is a corporate paralegal at Trupanion Inc. ...

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As a paralegal with a law degree, Amy Fleischer brings a unique perspective to her job at Ragsdale Liggett in Raleigh. A litigation paralegal, Fleischer primarily works on insurance defense cases and loves her work for its variety and complexity. ...

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By Teri Saylor  Minority and underserved populations in Charlotte have a straighter path to justice and prosperity thanks to the efforts of Kimberly Zirkle, a member at Moore and VanAllen of Charlotte.   Zirkle’s life experiences shaped her desire to help ...

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Laura Kutcher grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and after graduating from high school, she moved to Charlotte where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice in 2010 and obtained her Certificate in Paralegal Studies from UNC-Charlotte ...

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By Teri Saylor With a new NALS Chapter in North Carolina, paralegals and other support staff at law firms now have another professional organization available for networking and earning continuing education credits. The North Carolina Chapter of the National Association ...

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By Nicole Black BridgeTower Media Newswires In the fall of 2021, the American Bar Association released its annual Legal Technology Survey Report. This extensive report provides data and analysis on the technologies that lawyers are using and how they are ...

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Seven years ago, Natalie Porter wanted to supplement her income as a traditional paralegal in a law firm setting, so she started offering her services to other firms. “At that time, it was a lot of one-off kind of projects ...

After spending half of her career working in insurance, Lea Ann Adkins found her dream job. A South Carolina paralegal, Adkins spends her days working side-by-side with Jeff Yungman, a public interest attorney who serves a local homeless community at ...

Over the years, Noel Hill, a busy insurance defense paralegal at Teague Rotenstreich Stanaland Fox & Holt has become accustomed to juggling the large caseload that comes with the job. As a novice paralegal 15 years ago, the work weighed ...

Bobbie Kullman learned the value of compassion last year when she volunteered to help screen and organize hundreds of letters from prison inmates seeking opportunities to serve the remainder of their sentences outside prison walls during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “Prisoners who were ...

Juggling the needs of her 16-year-old son and work obligations over the past year has become a way of life for Ashley Shoaf, a paralegal at the Greensboro law firm of Hagan Barrett. It hasn’t been an easy road for ...