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7 Tips On Maximizing Your Potential As A Paralegal

If youu2019re in the paralegal profession, you probably already know that itu2019s an important role of the American criminal justice system. Paralegals, aka legal assistants, assist lawyers with much of the background work for cases. Depending on the state, paralegals often do nearly all the work that lawyers do. This includes doing legal research, filing cases and organizing them, interviewing, creating trial notes and legal briefs, drafting paperwork (including pleadings and contracts) and more, but not giving legal advice, presenting cases in court, setting fees and signing documents and other tasks that state laws permit only lawyers to do.<br>https://ccbstcollege.com/program/paralegal/

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7 Tips On Maximizing Your Potential As A Paralegal

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  1. 7 Tips On Maximizing Your Potential As A Paralegal By ccbstcollege.com

  2. 1. Upgrade Your Education Taking a few courses, participating in forums and keeping up with legal news will only get you so far. Advancing your paralegal education formally typically will increase your career opportunities. Depending on where your paralegal career is currently at, there are several options for a formal paralegal education

  3. 2. Get Certified While it is possible to do some work in the paralegal profession without certification, the likelihood of being hired by a firm to a salaried position is lower than if you’re certified. Getting certification from NALA (National Association of Legal Assistants) or another organization is key to being hired full-time as a paralegal.

  4. 3. Understand The U.S. Legal System It should go without saying, but the more you understand the American legal system, court protocols, deadlines, statutes, the more qualified you are to handle more than just legal administrative work, if this is your interest. This sort of knowledge is also valuable should you eventually decide to be a freelance paralegal.

  5. 4. Develop The Right Qualities Doing paralegal work means interacting with many different types of people – lawyers, other paralegals, witnesses, clients, experts and more. So it takes certain qualities for a person to thrive and succeed in this profession. Some of these qualities include attention to detail, diplomacy, team spirit, a structured approach to completing tasks,

  6. 5. Be A Team Player In the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” one of the key points is that people are interested in what *they* need. Lawyers, whom all paralegals work for, typically need team players. Winning a case can be critical for clients, and with all the details surrounding a case, it sometimes takes several people working together.

  7. 6. Get All The Experience You Can Being a team player increases the likelihood that you will get the opportunities to gain the experience you want as a paralegal. Use work assigned to you as opportunities to learn whatever you can about the profession, develop every skill you might need, at least to a rudimentary level. Every paralegal is new to the work at one time and you will be no different.

  8. 7. Stay Updated A degree and paralegal certification will give you the grounding, the actual work gives you practical experience, but there’s always something new to learn — trends, changes in laws, new software and more. Professional development for a paralegal, as in other professions, is an ongoing effort. Even experienced paralegals can occasionally learn something new.

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