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Client Intake for Paralegals.
The article offers suggestions for paralegal to perform proper initial client screening and best practice tips and discuss areas that can be pitfalls. It mentions family law firms typically do divorce, custody fights, child visitation, and support and estate firms may do tax planning and probate and estate planning cases. It also mentions personal injury firms may do car accidents, workplace accident, and medical malpractice cases.
What Does a PARALEGAL Do?
This article offers an overview of the work of paralegals. Paralegals assist lawyers or government agencies with research, organization, communication and evaluation of legal information, and they prepare a variety of legal documents. They do much of the same type of work that a lawyer would do, though they cannot give legal advice or represent people in court.
Paralegal's Mistake is Excusable.
Deals with the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit in a case related to mistakes committed by paralegals. Reliance of an attorney on an advice given by the paralegal with regard to a notice of appeal; Definition of excusable neglect; Test applied by the court to determine the existence of excusable neglect.
The Litigation Paralegal: Tips and Advice for Assisting in all Phases of Ligitation.
The article offers tips and advices to assist legal assistants in all the phases of litigation. Legal assistants are advised to develop a strong and open line of communication with the lawyers in order to increase involvement and responsibility on a case. It says that paralegal personnel should have a running index of deposition exhibits for this is useful when preparing depositions and avoid duplication of exhibits. It notes that these personnel should be able to prepare the exhibits in the manner which appeared in the list, and should be able to explain to the attorneys the process in preparing the exhibits. Also, it suggests to establish a cordial relationship with the witnesses to prepare and serve trial subpoenas.