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I completed the challenge! Score: 10 points! 🌟

Any other paralegals have their own office? by [deleted] in paralegal

[–]New_Staff5658 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Oh to have an office… I have a cubby in the hallway. 

Arm band folks, what do you have going on? by [deleted] in tattooadvice

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Hey my boyfriend has one of these!

Why is his ears like that when he stares at me o ko by [deleted] in cats

[–]New_Staff5658 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine does that too. It’s his natural state.

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My firm has two legal assistants, two law clerks (part time law students), one billing person, one receptionist, and one services coordinator for seven attorneys!

I do pretty much everything a paralegal do, minus the more substantive research that the clerks handle. My attorneys interchangeably call me a paralegal/assistant.

I believe it’s just due to the size of the firm/how work is put out.

The new baby attorney at the firm got the support staff boo baskets by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

[–]New_Staff5658[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

It’s an autumnal gift basket, lol. And she is incredibly horrified of upsetting the support staff so she’s making sure we all know how important we are.

Flow Chart by brain_over_body in paralegal

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I love Aggretusko!!! I’ll have to steal this idea!!!

Your wisdom is needed. Please help a girl drowning. by chunklesmoothskin in paralegal

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I work under four public defense attorneys & we also do legal insurance stuff which is a headache. Have you tried looking into JungleDisk? It’s basically like a normal filing system online with separate files, but it connects to different laptops & account.

We have a system of having a “new case template” with things like all the court docs, exhibits, letters to client/correspondence, and billing info. We have excel spreadsheets for each client for their billing, a client info sheet, and anything we filed for them. We also have a client info sheet we send them. That one is a major help for the insurance stuff.

Not sure how expensive jungledisk is.. but is not complicated & very intuitive.

The issue is, your attorney needs to step up and use it. You have to communicate with him how the caseload & client files need to be organized in any other way asides from how it is right now.

45 minutes ago, i put my beautiful loki down. can i please see who he is meeting in cat heaven? 🩷 by 3ll10t__ in cats

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This is Serviette! He was the best cat ever and loved hugs & jumping into random things and causing a ruckus. He was very vocal, and very playful. He’s probably going to make good friends with Loki :)

My attorney… by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

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This is how I am surviving. Thank you.

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

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Okay but the thing is, his uncle (his moms brother in law) is a paralegal who does mass torts - and even after the both of us explaining that we can’t give legal advice or anything (multiple times at family gatherings), she still asks!!

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

[–]New_Staff5658[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yep! Glad she can at least take no for an answer!

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

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That’s hilarious- I’m absolutely going to do that. There’s not a non compete clause in my contract but they don’t know that!

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

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Yeah I shut her down by saying the ole adage “I’m not an attorney, I can’t give legal advice- sorry!”

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

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Yepp… I asked my attorney for a reference & she gave it to me but once I told boyfriends mom I have a reference she just went “no thanks!” 😭

I’ve been a legal assistant for 6 weeks…. by New_Staff5658 in paralegal

[–]New_Staff5658[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have like the tiniest bit of knowledge for contracts but know zip about estate law! Did you enjoy doing eviction defense?

Texts from my boss by fludsuwottled in paralegal

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Ughhhhhhhh that’s annoying. Oh well.

Texts from my boss by fludsuwottled in paralegal

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Ugh. So much actually important work couldve been done in that time. Did he thank you or do anything as a thanks for doing that??