Ready for a trip down memory lane of the paralegal profession? A little flashback into the earlier days of being a paralegal? We’re taking you back in time a little. If you’re new to the paralegal profession, you’re lucky that you probably never had any…
A new litigation paralegal should look at three key areas early in their career. If you only focus on the paralegal skills that you might be lacking early in your career, then you might spend too much time focused on how many decades it will…
Do you feel like you’re in a constant battle with the scarcity mindset? The scarcity mindset has been plaguing the paralegal profession for far too long. This mindset is detrimental to all of us as we become limited in our potential to grow and excel…
How to Use Investigative Analysis Skills to Advance Your Litigation Paralegal Career One way to advance your litigation paralegal career and take on other roles is to add new skills. Usually, the “go-to” answer is eDiscovery. But there are many other skills that you can…
The skills that you’ve acquired throughout your paralegal career have opened the door to unlimited employment opportunities if you are looking for a paralegal career path that does not have the title “paralegal” that utilizes your paralegal skills and experience. Prefer to Listen? It’s on…
The Paralegal Certificate is Just the Start of Your Paralegal Training Indispensable paralegals know that their paralegal certificate is only the beginning of their paralegal training. If you’re like most, you probably spent a good sum of time and money on that paralegal certificate, so…
Paralegal Technology Skills are Not Just “Optional” There is no doubt that technology is changing the paralegal profession. Gone are the days when a paralegal sifts through dozens of books to find that key case to cite in a brief. We no longer fight traffic…
BEING A PROBLEM-SOLVER WILL ADVANCE YOUR PARALEGAL CAREER Soft skills are just as important as the other skills you develop throughout your paralegal career. One of those is the ability to solve problems, rather than reporting problems. Ask any attorney who thinks their paralegal is…
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…