Author Archives: Keegan
Paralegals and Legal Assistants: What Do They Do?
Paralegals provide invaluable support to the attorney employing them. Paralegals coordinate the logistical scheduling details of depositions among the various parties involved; they review and summarize depositions; interview witnesses and summarize their testimony; and draft documents such as contracts, wills, … Continue reading
Paralegal Professional Development
Continuing education, often called professional development, has become a common denominator of all recognized professions. It is typically required, measured, recorded, and tracked in terms of classroom or program hours of participation. And it is quite often mandatory as a … Continue reading
Paralegal Salaries in the United States
Surveys of paralegal compensation in the United States report rather significant variance between the highs and lows; however, the reported averages appear to be much closer together. See an up-to-date salary survey for your state here. A 2006 survey of … Continue reading
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What Will I Learn in Paralegal School?
There are over 600 paralegal education programs within the United States. But the question is not about how to enter a program, it’s more about which program is the best for the individual student. A good program is going to … Continue reading
Preparing the way for a profitable paralegal career
Development of paralegal skills may be accomplished in various ways. Traditionally, a person has become a paralegal through on-the-job training. Often this training was possible only as the result of fortuitous circumstances; for example, working for a benevolent employer wiling … Continue reading
Studying for Certification
Every officially recognized definition of a paralegal includes language providing that paralegals may become qualified for the duties of their profession by either work experience or formal educational training. Such a broad variety of means for entry into a professional … Continue reading
NALS: The Association for Legal Professionals
The National Association for Legal Secretaries evolved from casual meetings during 1929 of legal secretaries discussing things that were affecting their jobs into a national organization by 1949. NALS, claiming the honor of “oldest association formed for legal support professionals”, … Continue reading
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National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA)
Certified Legal Assistant (CLA) / Certified Paralegal (CP) The National Association of Legal Assistants (“NALA”) is an association comprised of four autonomous boards or committees with its headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Certifying Board, the Advanced Paralegal Certification Board, the … Continue reading
American Alliance of Paralegals
AAPI Certification The American Alliance of Paralegals is all about education, training, and advancing the paralegal’s job as a profession. It focuses on continuing the education and training of each individual paralegal as its way to accomplish its primary goal, … Continue reading
What’s so good about certification?
Certifications provide enhanced credibility and increased value to any professional designation. Certification typically requires passing an examination based on certain predetermined qualification specifications following completion of certain specified educational requirements sometimes including minimum work experience prior to taking the exam. … Continue reading
Hi, I'm Keegan Albarn, a paralegal with 14 years of experience. I'm here to answer your questions, listen to your suggestions, and help you make better decisions when planning your career. Feel free get in touch and let me know how it's all going!