Companies turn blind eye to coming labor shortage When it comes to the labor supply, it is often difficult for companies to face up to reality.Economists almost seem like they are crying ''FIRE!'' in a crowded movie theater when they suggest that the competition for workers is heating up. Everyone hears what they say, and then they go back to work as if they never heard. (61 views)
How Miata Holmes Got Her Job as a Paralegal Miata Holmes, a paralegal at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in Los Angeles, CA, tells LawCrossing how she got her job: (25 views)
The Law and Justice Studies Program at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ Rowan University began humbly in 1923 as a two-year normal school created to prepare teachers to work in Southern New Jersey classrooms. Eighty-four years later, it stands as one of the state's strongest comprehensive universities. (210 views)
Miata Holmes: Paralegal at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in Los Angeles, CA The people with whom she works are what paralegal Miata Holmes enjoys most about her job. Holmes works in the Los Angeles, California, office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. She found her position via MonsterTRAK.com, a job-posting site for college students and alumni. Of her coworkers, Holmes said, ''They have a wealth of knowledge, and I am grateful to be able to learn from... (99 views)
Improving Your Voice Quality Can Improve Your Career You have probably heard the cliche ''You get one chance to make a first impression.'' You have probably also heard that while your words only communicate about 7% of what you are trying to say, nonverbal cues communicate the remainder of the message you are sending. (339 views)
Highline Community College's Paralegal Studies Program Highline Community College is a junior college located in Des Moines, WA, just south of Seattle. The school was founded in 1961 and was the first community college in King County. The main campus overlooks Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. It is situated on 80 acres and boasts approximately 10,000 students and 350,000 alumni. (183 views)
How Ed Tomchin found his new job in a law firm "For most of my legal career, I worked freelance for any number of attorneys. I'd prepare a small three-fold brochure, which I'd copy a few hundred times and mail to all the sole practitioners and small firms in whatever area I happened to be living at the time. I reasoned that the larger firms would want staff employees rather than a freelancer, and my experience bore... (18 views)
Labor policy could short Circuit City It makes no sense for Circuit City to declare war on working Americans. (38 views)
Ed Tomchin: Paralegal and Photographer, Golden Valley, AZ Golden Valley, Arizona, situated in the northwest corner of the state, is where retired paralegal Ed Tomchin makes his home these days. He still keeps his hand in the game, so to speak, by writing political essays and volunteering to help local residents with their legal problems from time to time. But don't worry; there is no unauthorized practice of law going on here. (89 views)
The Paralegal Studies Program at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY Westchester Community College was founded in 1946 as the New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in White Plains. In 1957, the county of Westchester bought the 360-acre John Hartford estate in Valhalla and designated 218 acres for the community. The college boasts approximately 12,000 full-time and part-time students. Add to that another 8,000 continuing... (479 views)
The Seven Deadly Sins Apply to The Workplace, Too Maybe it's just the profession I'm in or the era, but I've always been intrigued by the way co-workers have viewed themselves. (85 views)
Male Paralegals: Is There Really a Glass Elevator? It is not uncommon these days to see more men doing traditionally female jobs such as teaching preschool and kindergarten and working as librarians, legal assistants or paralegals, bank tellers, speech pathologists, secretaries, data-entry workers, nurses, or even maids. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2005, 13.7% of paralegals were men. In 2004, the... (13795 views)
Howard Lee: Legal Assistant at Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen in Richmond, VA Legal assistant Howard C. Lee, III, said that when other legal professionals and clients interact with him or hear his (male) voice, they assume he is in some type of leadership or management position; consequently, he normally receives instant respect. But he doesn't let that go to his head. (455 views)
Allocation of time for each case and effective time management in legal firms Some projects—especially the most urgent ones—seem to demand time traveling as a requisite skill. Everyone wants work done ASAP, but there's only one you and 24 hours in a day. What's to be done? (70 views)
The Paralegal Program at Wesley College, Dover, DE Located on 50 acres in the historic city of Dover, Delaware, Wesley College was founded in 1873 as a preparatory school. Delaware's oldest private college, it is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and offers 30 bachelor's degrees, four associate's degrees, and master's degrees in nursing, education, business administration, and environmental science. (129 views)
Boorish co-workers bring everyone down As I sit here in the middle of a big office, I know there is guy sitting 30 feet behind me I wish would just disappear. (576 views)
Danny Katz: Singer, Songwriter, Paralegal, New York, NY Paralegal-singer-songwriter Danny Katz graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1999 with a general B.A. degree and concentrations in Asian/Asian-American studies and LGBT/gender studies. (174 views)
E-Griping: Not on My Blog Everyone has bad days at work; with every job, there is some measure of discontent. (Why else would so many people be looking at job-placement websites?) Yet, often, such dissatisfaction can galvanize you by creating the motivation you need to propel your career upward. (9 views)
How Robert Smith Got His Job as as Paralegal This week, Robert Smith, a paralegal in the Law Offices of Edward A. Smith in Sacramento, CA, tells LawCrossing how he got his job: (31 views)
Flexible employers will thrive in shrinking labor pool One of the more perplexing habits of modern American businesses is to jettison workers and then complain later that they just can't find enough qualified employees. (127 views)
The Paralegal Studies Program at Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS Mississippi University for Women offers a variety of liberal arts and professional programs to its students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 1884, Mississippi University for Women became the first state-supported college for women in the country. (95 views)
The Paralegal Studies Program at Husson College Beautiful Bangor, Maine, the place that Henry David Thoreau once described as a ''star on the edge of the night,'' is the home of Husson College, founded in the 1890s. Its mission is ''to prepare graduates for successful professional careers and to promote in each student an emerging sense of self-worth.'' (61 views)
Good benefits are a benefit to employers, too For the first time in memory, employers have put retaining employees ahead of cost-control in their corporate priorities.A new study by MetLife reports that 55 percent of employers recently identified retention as their top human resources priority. (111 views)
Denise Ben-David: From Paralegal to Attorney If former paralegal Denise Ben-David had not accepted a dare from a senior partner to take the LSAT, she might not be a practicing associate with Ferrell Law, P.A., today. (413 views)
Dorothy Secol, CLA and Peggy E. Stalford, LA Experienced legal assistants Dorothy Secol and Peggy Stalford knew they could succeed producing legal work outside of the traditional law office for a wide range of practitioners, and in 1986, Paralegal Services was born. (392 views)
Paralegal Program: Kaplan University Online Kaplan University is an accredited, online teaching facility that offers its students a real-world philosophy. Kaplan has been an academic pioneer since 1937. It is part of Kaplan Higher Education which offers more than 70 campus-based schools in 22 states around the country. Kaplan is also the world leader in test preparation services and materials and provides... (496 views)
Abrupt change can be as serious as a heart attack I can't imagine that I will ever see a more pronounced case of an attempted career suicide than I saw last week. It happened in front of me and was so graphic that it almost seemed like a Greek tragedy unfolding in real time. (9 views)
Pro Bono Work Isn't Just for Lawyers While reviewing news releases and other noteworthy items pertaining to the paralegal world this week, I came across a notice about an upcoming Pro Bono Conference sponsored by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA). The conference, which will be held in Denver at Holland & Hart on March 24 and 25, 2007, will teach legal assistants and paralegals how to... (194 views)
Why You Should Think Twice Before Quitting Any Legal Job If you go into any firm that has been around more than 20 or 30 years, you will inevitably find a handful of attorneys who have been there from the very beginnings of their careers. These well-adjusted souls will typically report to work each day at a similar time and will have managed to be the only ones left in the law firm after generation upon generation of attorneys... (15218 views)