10 Motion Filing Time Savers
Your motion or response has to be filed within two hours. You and your attorney are scrambling to get it finished. It’s a race against the clock and you didn’t eat lunch and you’re slightly [...]
Confidentiality and the Virtual Paralegal
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 [...]
FRCP Revisions
The most substantial revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure since 2006 went into effect on December 1, 2015. I've published two articles on the substance of those revisions, which can be accessed here [...]
Paralegal Alliance Podcast
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 [...]
Are Paralegals an “Embarrassment”?
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, [...]
Conflict Check Guidelines
Some Rules The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.7 through 1.11 govern avoiding conflicts of interest. Rule 1.7(a) says a lawyer can’t represent a particular client if doing so would involve a conflict of [...]