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Law firm structure and regulation in the legal profession -- About technology -- Law office communications : the medium -- Law office communications : the message -- Law office systems : conflicts and calendars -- Law office accounting : time and billing -- Law office accounting : it's a business -- Applying the technology -- Office and equipment -- Records management -- Employees -- Personal and professional development -- Attracting and retaining clients.

Administrative law and administrative agencies -- Development of administrative law -- Agency discretion -- Client rights -- Agency rules and regulations -- Investigations and information gathering -- Informal proceedings -- Administrative agency hearings -- Judicial review -- Paralegalism in administrative law

Administrative law and administrative agencies -- Development of administrative law and the delegation doctrine -- Agency discretion -- Client rights -- Agency rules and regulations -- Investigations and information gathering -- Informal proceedings -- Administrative agency hearings -- Judicial review -- The right to know and the right to privacy -- Paralegalism in administrative law.

The paralegal profession -- Ethics and professional responsibility -- The paralegal workplace -- Technology and the paralegal -- Introduction to law -- American legal heritage and constitutional law -- The court system and alternative dispute resolution -- Litigation -- Criminal law and procedure -- Administrative law -- Interviewing and investigation skills -- Legal writing and critical legal thinking -- Legal research.

Oversight : regulation and licensing of the legal profession -- The unauthorized practice of law -- Maintaining competency, diligence, and communications -- Confidentiality -- Conflicts of interest -- Fees and client property -- Special clients and situations -- Advocacy and litigation issues -- Law firms : understanding the structure and management of the practice -- Advertising and the solicitation -- Maintaining the integrity of the profession

Despite the invisibility of emotional labor among paralegals, this dimension of work has significant consequences for the reproduction of the labor process in the large bureaucratic firm & for the psychological well-being of paralegals. These legal workers function to support & maintain the emotional stability of the lawyers for whom they work through deferential treatment & caretaking. By affirming the status of lawyers, paralegals also reproduce gender relations in the law firm. Most attorneys who receive caretaking & support are men, & the majority of the legal assistants who provide these emotional services are women. In this way, the emotional labor required of paralegals serves to reproduce the sex-segregated structure of law firms. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

Regulation of lawyers and paralegals -- Unauthorized practice of law -- Confidentiality -- Conflicts of interest -- Advertising and solicitation -- Fees and client funds -- Competence -- Special issues in advocacy -- Professionalism and special issues for paralegals

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 A Snapshot of the Exciting and Lucrative Paralegal Profession -- Chapter 1 Discovering the Paralegal Profession -- Almost a Lawyer: What a Paralegal Does -- Researching and analyzing the law -- Playing Sherlock: Interviewing and investigating -- Convening with clients -- Administrating the legal environment -- On the Job: Where Paralegals Work -- The six-figure paralegal: Working for the big firm -- Jack- or Jill-of-all-trades: Working for the small firm -- Spreading the love: The pro bono paralegal -- Working for the government -- Doing it your way: The paralegal as independent contractor -- What It Takes: The Skills, Knowledge, and Training You Need -- The paralegal personality -- Paralegal know-how -- Education and experience: Two ways to train -- Chapter 2 Membership Has Its Privileges: Paralegal Associations and Their Certification Exams -- To Join or Not to Join -- Characterizing the types of associations -- Weighing in on whether or not to join an association -- Deciding Whether to Get Certified -- Choosing a certification exam -- Weighing the pros and cons of paralegal certification -- Chapter 3 The Hunt Is On: Securing a Paralegal Position -- Finding the Perfect Job -- Traditional sources: Scanning the job boards and turning to placement services -- Networking: It's who you know -- Creating the Documentation -- Killer cover letters -- Ravishing resumes -- Developing an online profile -- Setting Up Shop: Starting a Freelance Paralegal Business -- Part 2 Important Legal Concepts Every Paralegal Should Know -- Chapter 4 "All Rise": The American Judicial System -- Everything Old Is New Again: The Importance of Legal Precedence.

Over the past decade or so, lawyers have become accustomed to socio-legal "explosions": the explosion into the law scene of legal services corporations; the explosion in malpractice insurance rates as the result of the explosion in medical malpractice suits and favorable jury verdicts; the explosion in no-fault law, both in negligence and family disputes; and the legal profession's own population explosion. Therefore, it should come as no great shock that over the past decade there has been one additional socio-legal explosion: the explosion in the use of paralegals by lawyers, law firms, corporations, and government agencies of all descriptions. Although the explosion in the use of paralegals comes as no shock to lawyers, it may be mildly surprising to many that no state has yet passed a statute to regulate paralegal training programs or paralegal activity in general. This article is written on the assumption that some states may take legislative action with regard to paralegal regulation.

Finding the law -- The federal and state court systems -- Statutory law -- Case law and judicial opinions -- Locating cases through digests, annotated law reports, and words and phrases -- Encyclopedias, periodicals, treatises, and restatements -- Miscellaneous secondary authorities -- Legal citation form -- Updating and validating your research -- Special research issues -- The digital library : Lexis advance, Westlaw, and other nonprint research sources -- E-Research : legal research using the internet -- Overview of the research process -- Back to basics -- Strategies for effective writing -- Legal correspondence -- Legal memoranda -- Legal briefs -- Postwriting steps.