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Paralegals on Fire! Podcast

Providing you with actionable strategies every week to help you fast-track your paralegal career.

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3-step plan

Episode 101: A 3-Step Plan for Litigation Paralegals to Crush it in 2024

In this solo episode, you will get a 3-step plan for advancing your litigation paralegal career that includes learning about eDiscovery.
A Paralegal Student Interviews Me

Episode 100: Top 10 Tips to End the Year

In this episode, Ann celebrates 100 episodes of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show and reflects on the top 10 tips of 2023.
charting paralegal success

Episode 99: Charting Paralegal Success – A Reflection on 2023

In this episode, Ann discusses charting paralegal success by measuring gains and wins rather than the gaps we haven't achieved yet.
paralegal to compliance officer

Episode 98: Paralegal to Compliance Officer

In this episode, Ann interviews Melissa Andrews, a paralegal turned compliance officer who shares her journey to this alternative career.
paralegal mentors

Episode 97: Paralegal Mentors Can Have Such a Big Impact

In this episode, Ann interviews Ashley Stasiewich, a full-time paralegal instructor who shares the importance of paralegal mentors.
career options

Episode 96: Your Career Options Are Unlimited

In this episode, Ann shares important insights on the alternative career options available to paralegals and how they can make a transition.
excel as a personal injury paralegal

Episode 95: How to be a Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

In this solo podcast episode, Ann Pearson shares the essential steps to excel as a personal injury paralegal.
Understanding the definitions of titles, evolution of roles, and skills that differentiate a paralegal from a legal assistant.

Episode 94: Are you a legal assistant or a paralegal?

Ann Pearson clears the confusion around the different titles used inside the legal profession: legal assistant and paralegal.
Ann Pearson sits at a desk with a laptop and a microphone, ready to answer all paralegal-related questions thrown at her.

Episode 93: Your Ask Me Anything Questions Answered

In this episode of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show, "Ask Me Anything" edition, Ann Pearson answers paralegal career questions.
A professional paralegal standing at a desk and studying the details of a document.

Episode 92: This One Skill Can Make Or Break a Paralegal Career

In this episode, Ann shares important insights on a skill that can make or break your paralegal career - attention to detail.
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Episode 91: Do You Need a Time Audit?

In this episode of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show, "Ask Me Anything" edition, Ann Pearson gives advice on how to perform a time audit.
An attorney and a paralegal discussing the most important role of a trial paralegal in front of a court.

Episode 90: Your Most Important Role as a Trial Paralegal

In this episode, Ann talks about the most important role as a trial paralegal that you should focus on during this important phase in your
Attorneys and Managers in a meeting about how to keep and get the best paralegals to help with their work.

Episode 89: Managers and Attorneys: How to Get and Keep the Best Paralegals

Ann shares valuable insights for managers and attorneys regarding how to get and keep the best paralegals.
Ann Pearson sits at a desk with a laptop and a microphone, ready to answer all paralegal-related questions thrown at her.

Episode 88: Ask Me Anything

In this "Ask Me Anything" episode, Ann Pearson answers questions sent in from podcast listeners on a variety of topics.
A group of legal assistants and secretaries discussing the importance of finding your confidence as a new paralegal.

Episode 87: Finding Your Confidence as a New Paralegal

In this episode, Ann Pearson gives valuable advice on developing your confidence as a new paralegal to help you succeed in your career.
A paralegal uses a calculator to calculate the figures in the data on her computer to show how valuable her billable hours are.

Episode 86: Your Billable Hours Matter More Than You Think

In this podcast episode, Ann Pearson gives her former management perspective on why paralegal billable hours are important to your career.
A paralegal working on billable time entries draft with a laptop and a clock on the desk.

Episode 85: 3 Tips For Drafting Billable Time Entries

In this episode of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show, Ann Pearson shares 3 key tips for drafting billable time entries.
Two paralegals complaining and trying to see if they can change their boss.

Episode 84: Can You Fix Your Boss? An Interview with Molly McGrath

In this guest episode of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show, Ann Pearson welcomes back Molly McGrath, Founder of Hiring & Empowering Solutions as she
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Episode 83: Paralegal Inspiration! An Interview With Amy Elder

In this guest interview podcast, Ann interviews Amy Elder in our monthly paralegal inspiration episode.
A manager walks the office with a new paralegal and informs her of what she learned as a manager but didn't know as a paralegal.

Episode 82: Things I Learned As a Manager That I Wish I Knew When I Was a Paralegal

In this episode of the Paralegals on Fire! Podcast Show, Ann Pearson shares valuable insight with paralegals that she gained as a paralegal manager.
A confident paralegal working at a computer and portraying that faking it till you make it is a bad idea compared to learning.

Episode 81: Fake it Till You Make It is a Bad Idea

Get valuable insight into the dangers of the "fake it till you make it" mentality in the paralegal profession.
A paralegal puts in the work and gets her foot in the door as she ascends the legal corporate ladder.

Episode 80: Should You Take Any Position To Get Your Foot In The Door?

Ann Pearson talks to someone who started her paralegal career as a receptionist and is now the firm-wide Director of Paralegals at a global law
A paralegal taking ownership of your work

Episode 79: Paralegal to Lawyer – An Interview with Sarah Riley Mohr

In this guest interview podcast, Ann interviews Sarah Riley Mohr about her path from paralegal to lawyer and how her paralegal skills helped her.
A paralegal studying eDiscovery on her laptop to ensure she's preparing for litigation.

Episode 78: You’re Not Doing Litigation If You’re Not Doing E-discovery

In this guest interview podcast, Ann interviews Michael Quartararo about e-discovery trends for litigation paralegals and other legal professionals.
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Episode 77: Paralegal Inspiration! An Interview With Amy McGuigan

In this guest interview podcast, Ann interviews Amy McGuigan in our monthly paralegal inspiration episode.
A prospective paralegal doing some research to check if you can really get a paralegal job without a paralegal certificate.

Episode 76: Can You Really Get a Paralegal Job Without a Paralegal Certificate?

In this guest interview podcast, Jessie Foss and Ann Pearson discuss how her journey started without a paralegal certificate and what you can do to
A serious paralegal working on a project as she scribbles and shows one of the habits of the indispensable paralegal.

Episode 75: 7 Habits of the Indispensable Paralegal

In this solo podcast episode, Ann Pearson shares 7 habits of the indispensable paralegal and how to master them to stand out on your team.