Legal Staff Q&A: Common Questions and Answers for Legal Support Staff Members
This article provides answers to common questions that legal support staff members may have about their job...
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Achieving Success as a Legal Staff Member: Habits of Highly Effective Legal Support Staff Members
Legal support staff members play a crucial role in the success of law firms and legal departments. They...
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The Main Reasons Staff Attorneys Are Valuable for Law Firms
Staff attorneys are often considered "less than" in the legal industry. They may sometimes do the same amount...
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Managing Your Time on a Legal Staff Job
Time management is essential in any professional field, but never more so than when in the legal field. Most...
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Five Tips that Lead to Paralegal Offers
Whether you are changing jobs or entering the paralegal field for the first time, you want to be in the...
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Work Goes on: What If a Coworker Quits Your Law Firm?
Career experts have it right: Office friendships—both the real kind and the virtual kind—are tricky. Today...
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1st Day Introductions At Your New Legal Job
Today is your first day on the job and you’re prepared: You have your outfit picked out, you packed your...
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How to Turn Down a Legal Job Offer: Let 'Em Down Easy
Interviewing, much like dating, begins with careful preparation, nervous anxiety, and finding just the right...
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Rising Demand for 'Temp-To-Hire' Legal Secretaries
One of the first indications of an improving legal secretarial employment market that has been hit hard by a...
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How Do Attorneys Handle Their Cases?
Summary: Attorneys discuss the manner in which they handle their cases.
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LawCrossing’s Top 20 Attorney and Legal Career Advice Articles of 2016
Summary: Enjoy the 20 most popular articles on LawCrossing that concern job seekers this year.
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The Importance of Technology to the Legal Secretary
Summary: The rise of technology in the legal profession has revolutionized the way offices are run and...
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Demand for Temp-to-Hire Legal Secretaries on the Rise
Summary: This article documents the increasing demand of temp-to-hire legal secretaries, an indicator that the...
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Advice for New Paralegals: What Every Paralegal Must Know When They Begin a New Paralegal Job
Summary: This article uses real experiences from paralegals to illustrate the job and its processes to those...
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LawCrossing’s 20 Most Popular 2015 Articles for Attorneys and Legal Job Seekers
Summary: Take a look at the top 20 articles for legal job seekers in 2015 on LawCrossing in this article.
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The New Jersey Licensing Experience
New Jersey’s recent consideration of licensing requirements for paralegals illustrates the arguments made on...
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Frivolous Lawsuits — Rule 11
Although lawyers should consider all possible claims when preparing a complaint, they are forbidden from...
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What is the Most Important Thing You Have Learned about Leadership?
We asked paralegals and other professionals in the United States what the most important thing they have...
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Drafting a Complaint or a Civil Lawsuit
A civil lawsuit begins when the plaintiff files a complaint with an appropriate court. A complaint is a...
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How Paralegals Are Utilized
In 1998, the American Bar Association published the results of a comprehensive survey of its members engaged...
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Tips from Successful Legal Staff Members on How to Achieve Success
We reached out to two successful legal staff members across the country to find out what it takes to be...
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The Pleasures and Pressures of the Job as Paralegal
As paralegals gain experience and learn more about the profession through continuing education courses, they...
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Plan Your Career as a Freelance Paralegal
There are certain important issues to consider when planning your career as a freelance paralegal.
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Important Tips to be Considered for Paralegal
Without opening your mouth, you convey messages and attitudes by how you sit, stand, use your hands. Be sure...
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Advice from Paralegals
There are some Questions on Sensitive Issues where it is necessary to get Advice from Paralegals.Some...
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Legal Professionals Who Can Influence Your Career beyond Internship
Your internship will bring you into contact with many different professionals from both in and out of the...
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Law-Related Services in Office
In any office providing law-related services, the intern's first challenge is mastering the procedures used...
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Law Interns Who Work in Law Library, Conference Room and Other Places
A solo practitioner sometimes keeps a collection of law books in his or her own office, but most often, the...
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Intern's Role in the Law Office's Billing Practices
Working paralegals are sometimes under great pressure to produce a certain number of billable hours. Interns...
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