Think Online Reputation Management is just for controlling negative reviews? Thank again. Online Reputation Management (ORM) is for any attorney who markets and promotes their services under their own name. When you’re an attorney doing business under your name, your name becomes your brand, and your brand is only as strong as your reputation. If […]
The Jurassic Park Law Office In 1990 when I began my career as a paralegal, computers were still relatively new in most law firms. The most progressive law firms and larger firms had already seen the value of technology; however, smaller firms with older attorneys were not as willing to invest the time or money […]
When I was in paralegal school, the teachers and the dean gave the impression that when we graduated we would all be carrying briefcases, working in a high-rise building, wearing suits, going to court and have our own assistant to do our filing and typing. Of course, we also would be earning a lot of […]
There is no such thing as an organized mess Anyone who tries to convince you that they work better in a messy office is simply avoiding the fact that they are unorganized. When you do not have good organizational systems in place, you create a situation in which clutter, confusion and unproductivity live. Being unorganized […]
I found that during my legal research class for my paralegal degree that the class was split into two separate camps: those that loved legal research and those that hated legal research. I fell somewhere in between the two sides because I did not love legal research but I would never allow my GPA to […]
I heard someone refer to paralegals as “glorified paper-pushers (actually, it was a paralegal who said that). I believe that paralegals who see themselves as “glorified paper-pushers” might be frustrated because they do not have an efficient document management plan. One of the most frustrating things about being a paralegal can be the amount of […]
As most litigators understand, jury selection is possibly the most important part of a trial case. By the time trial commences, a good attorney has spent a considerable amount of time thinking about the questions he or she will ask potential panel members, has pored over jury pool lists if available, has drafted carefully-thought-out juror […]
You have worked for months or years gathering evidence, documenting witness statements and processing discovery requests in preparation for one thing — the trial. One of the keys to ensuring that the trial goes smoothly from your side of the courtroom is the preparation of trial exhibits. When an attorney is well organized and efficient, […]
You know how important it is to nail down the opposing party’s experts at their depositions. You want to lock them in to their opinions and to identify all the supporting documents upon which they relied. To do this well, you need to spend sufficient time in preparation so you can elicit all of the […]
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