Any member of the legal community, whether lawyer or support staff, full-time employee or contractor, is bound by the ethical duty of maintaining client confidences. An attorney, and by extension his or her staff, has a duty “to maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril to himself or herself [...]
In recent years, law firm staff reductions have made paralegal jobs harder to find. Also, some paralegals have decided they want more control over their work life. The result has been a great deal of interest in tips for starting a contract paralegal business. Paralegals reach out to me for [...]
In addition to practicing family law in North Carolina, Lee Rosen of Divorce Discourse consults with lawyers seeking to improve and expand their law practices. I’ve been reading his blog avidly for years. You see, even though I’m an “embarrassing” paralegal and not a lawyer, I am a business owner, [...]
The field of virtual paralegals is a growing one. I was honored to be one of eight paralegals interviewed in the article, Virtual Paralegals Move Legal Work Online, by Brendan McKenna in Law Technology News.
I read an article a while back by Ben Anton, now available here, called 5 Reasons Law Firms Hire Virtual Receptionists, which was an excellent description of why virtual receptionists are so beneficial. It prompted these thoughts of my own. Here is my assessment of why law firms – and [...]
