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For tips on effective networking, Carolina Paralegal News turned to Christina Koch, a litigation paralegal and trial practice specialist with Inserra & Kelley of Omaha, Neb.; Lois Belle, a paralegal with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Greenville, S.C.; and ...

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It’s July, it’s hot and every afternoon at four the rain gods descend from the heavens to soak my fair city for an hour or so (two if we’re lucky). The remaining twenty-three are stagnant and wet, the black asphalt ...

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Being a high performance paralegal means developing strong personal and professional work traits that govern your career. When a successful professional paralegal defines himself or herself by a set of incorruptible and desirable work traits, you have a soaring eagle ...

The most successful paralegals are those who understand that networking doesn’t stop after they’ve gotten the job Lauri Oliver was impressed. After an entire afternoon spent at a career fair talking to paralegals about their professional prospects, she recalled a ...

Data breaches and cyber-attacks are an unfortunate reality. In the past few years, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Wyndham Hotels have all faced data security breaches.

On a recent steamy Sunday afternoon, Stephanie Elliott was unpacking her luggage after a week at the beach. She had been home for 24 hours and in the past she would have already been unpacked, with laundry washed, car scrubbed and vacuumed, house cleaned, groceries purchased and put away, and preparations for a new work week well underway.

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Documenting policies and procedures can be a practical tool to help any law firm, even a small or virtual one, assess its operation against objective standards. Law firms are businesses and every business should have a rationale for its actions. ...

Ann Atkinson remembers trading in her electric typewriter for an IBM Selectric. She can also remember the good old days of letterhead and carbon paper, of printing, mailing, and faxing documents, hours of filing and dealing with file storage systems. ...

Camille Stell has been named vice president of client services at Lawyers Mutual. She previously was director of client services until March 15, when the company’s board of directors confirmed her new appointment. “Lawyers Mutual is very lucky to have ...

BALTIMORE — An attorney has been disbarred for submitting a forged doctor’s letter as a reason to postpone an administrative hearing. Joel Jay Fader compounded the offense by failing to inform an administrative law judge that the note was forged ...

Paralegals transform their lives and the lives of others through charity work Karen Hall is a hardworking paralegal in a law firm on Main Street in Greenville, S.C.  She is also a wife and mother working hard to help provide for ...

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BOSTON — A federal court recently decided that an employer may have violated federal discrimination law for having the audacity to require an employee to show up for work on time. I guess next we’ll learn that it’s illegal to ...

PHOENIX — Sarah Buel was working as a paralegal for the city prosecutor’s office in Seattle when a judge called her up to the bench after a hearing. She had just argued passionately on behalf of a victim in a ...

Long relegated to support roles, paralegals today learn leadership skills through their professional associations Deborah Reynolds laughs as she perches on the brink of her second term as president of the Legal Staff Professionals of South Carolina. “I guess you could say ...