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Ediscovery Tool for Paralegals

MEET & CONFER CHECKLIST FOR LITIGATION PARALEGALS As a litigation paralegal, part of your case management duties may include getting the attorney ready for the Rule 26 Conference (the “Meet and Confer”). This ediscovery process checklist will help you get the attorney organized and ready…

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March 9, 2021

Litigation

3 Methods to Summarizing Deposition Transcripts

Warning: Digesting a Deposition Transcript Can Be Time-Consuming! Preparing a deposition summary (a/k/a digesting a deposition transcript) can be time-consuming for a litigation paralegal and costly to the client. For a typical 200-page deposition transcript, it can take a litigation paralegal more than 8 hours…

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October 23, 2020

Litigation Trial

Assisting with the Pretrial Conference

The best thing I ever did early in my litigation paralegal career, was to ask to attend a pretrial conference with the attorney. For the first few years, I had several cases go to trial that I attended, but I’d never personally attended the pretrial…

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August 28, 2020

Litigation

Tip for Quickly Finding the Relevant Court Rule

As a litigation paralegal, you need to be good at finding the relevant court rule quickly. Even with the ability to do a keyword search online, you want to make sure your results are refined so that you do not waste your time sifting through…

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August 21, 2020

Litigation

What is a Litigation Paralegal?

WHAT IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL? A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. …

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November 22, 2019

Litigation Paralegal Tips Trial

Trial Binder to the Rescue

THE TRIAL BINDER (a/k/a the Trial Notebook) IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL’S TOOLBOX Getting ready for trial can be stressful enough when it’s a case you have worked on for months or years. That stress level multiplies tenfold when it’s a case that just got dumped…

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July 11, 2019

e-discovery Litigation Paralegal Career Path

E-discovery is Changing the Role of a Litigation Paralegal

Technology is changing the litigation paralegal duties in a positive way. In the past, any and all discovery would come to a litigation paralegal in physical form. It would arrive in piles of boxes (or truckloads full of boxes). The paralegal would then have to…

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January 10, 2018

e-discovery Litigation Paralegal Career Path

Career Options for Paralegals with E-discovery Experience

Career Options For Paralegals With E-discovery Experience Career options for paralegals are opening up, thanks to technology. One of those options is to transition from Litigation Paralegal to E-discovery Paralegal. Here are 3 steps you can start to take now to open up doors for…

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June 11, 2017

Litigation Trial

5 Ways Paralegals Can Perfect Trial Visual Aids

Creating trial visual aids might be a large part of your role as a litigation paralegal. Using a visual to demonstrate evidence is a great way to make sure that a jury or judge understands complicated information that might be difficult to explain with words…

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December 12, 2016

Litigation New Paralegals Paralegal Tips

Case Management Tips for New Paralegals

When you’re starting a new paralegal career, these case management tips will help you if you’re feeling overwhelmed. Most likely, there wasn’t a class on case management in your paralegal certificate program. If there was, it was a chapter in one of your reading assignments…

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August 22, 2016