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Why do we need paralegals

Paralegals structure a significant piece of the legal industry and are responsible for taking care of plenty of assignments and for offering help for the legal advisors they work for. Under directions given by a lawyer, most paralegals take care of minor legitimate issues. They help legal counselors in various undertakings like research of laws, legal choices, articles, settlements, and other authoritative archives that are vital to the ebb and flow legitimate cases. They may even need to arrange in the documenting of money related records and case documents.

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Why do we need paralegals

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  1. Why do we need Paralegals?

  2. What is a Paralegal? A paralegal is an individual who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, government agency, or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible Paralegals perform tasks requiring knowledge of the law and legal procedures A paralegal is not a lawyer but is typically employed by a law office or internal legal department of a company

  3. What Does a Paralegal Do?

  4. Paralegals spend time engaged in.. • Case management - coordinating all aspects of a case and ensuring appropriate steps are taken in a timely fashion. • Calculating legal deadlines and filing documents as required • Interviewing clients and maintaining contact with them, under the attorney’s supervision • Drafting and analyzing legal documents including pleadings, discovery requests and responses

  5. Preparing for and assisting during trial. • Representing clients before a state or federal administrative agency if permitted by law. • Locating and interviewing witnesses. • Summarizing documents and proceedings including depositions, interrogatories and testimony. • Attending legal proceedings including executions of wills, real estate closings, depositions, court or administrative hearings and trials with the attorney.

  6. Paralegals are .. • Detail-Oriented • Researchers & Investigators • Communicators • Organizers • Specialists The Paralegal’s Roles

  7. Detail-Oriented When a court filing needs to be proofed and double-checked, or an oral argument fact-checked, it is most often a paralegal that lawyers will turn to in order to make sure the job is done right.

  8. Researchers & Investigators Critical thinking skills and legal knowledge set paralegals apart from other law office staff. This allows them to understand and follow leads, grasping the thread of a case in the same way that a lawyer would do and pulling to find out where it unravels.

  9. Communicators Paralegals are conduits for information. They get more face time with clients than anyone else in the office, explaining the process and asking critical questions. Paralegals must become excellent writers, fully conversant in legal language and able to translate legalese into plain English.

  10. Organizers They put exceptional organizational skills to use building and maintaining documents, and they are expected to be the office expert in high tech data storage and collection systems. Paralegals ensure that firms adhere to court calendars and hunt down and eliminate schedule conflicts before they turn into case-killers.

  11. Specialists Most paralegals specialize in certain aspects of the law or types of cases: • Estate planning and probate • Family Law • Immigration • Intellectual Property • Real Estate

  12. Providing Legal Services at a Rate People Can Afford Paralegals are becoming recognized for their ability to develop a similar degree of expertise, and offer a similar set of services, as fully-fledged lawyers, but at a fraction of the cost … • Document preparation, including drafting agreements, contracts, and briefs. • Representing parties in administrative law hearings. • Providing legal information to a general audience. • Explaining procedural issues of law.

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