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8 million in franchise revenue last year, according to the company's Form 10-K annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Miller, L. (2005) Outsource paralegal work. Trial 41(10), 72-73.
Increasingly, paraprofessionals are going freelance or by contract hours. With a salaried paralegal, if there is a break in the work, he or she may have to do clerical work because there is nothing else to do. A contract paralegal, however, can take on short-term, long-term, per-diem, or per-case projects, depending on what is needed by commissioned assignment. The person is paid only when billing, without the overhead, benefits, or taxes. Contract paralegals can assist with litigation preparation, covering employee absences, and overflow work. Anoutside paralegal can help prepare documents and keep cases moving. A paralegal who is familiar with files can maximize a firm's productivity...
(2006, December 4). Commentary: How should your paralegal behave.
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When a paralegal is hired, it is the employer's responsibility to determine whether there is any potential for conflict related to prior client representation. The paralegal is held to the same level of obligation as any lawyer is to inform the new employer of any conflicts. The new employer is responsible for screening any possible commonalities and making an effort to minimize the affects of prior knowledge.
Where a possible conflict of interest arises, attorneys may want to: 1) create an ethical wall by prohibiting the paralegal from having any connection with the matter; 2) ban discussions with or the transfer of documents to or from the paralegal; 3) restrict access to the files;
Paralegal Ethics Paralegals play a unique role in helping to prepare a legal team for the challenges they will face with any kind of litigation. This means that they must embrace a certain amount of ethics to ensure they are supporting the client and everyone they are working with. As far as Lucy and her conflicts surrounding the Phiox case are concerned. These are examples of issues which can arise. To
This writer has past volunteer work experience at senior centers, convalescent homes and assisted living centers has provided this writers with experiential knowledge gained through providing entertainment and interaction with older individuals in these facilities and this served to invoke a special empathy for these individuals coping with such challenging circumstances with which this writer has never had to cope. VI. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Just as the world's reality has entered through
As technology and the capability of removing artifacts from recordings improve this area of the law will be likely to be revisited in the future. This last revision to copyright law raised more questions than it answered. For instance, was it acceptable to colorize black and white movies? Did this alter them from the original work, or was this an acceptable? Was it OK to alter pieces of work to
Office Manual | law firms' office manual Office Manual Office Manual for Law Firms In this paper, we will prepare a section of a law firms' office manual which will deal with the procedures the firm has set up for hiring and training of new employees, specifically the paralegal. We will take some references from other office procedure books as well but firstly let's focus on the hiring and training part. Hiring and Training The basic
difficult conflicts anyone in the legal profession can experience is a conflict between ethics and the obligation to zealously represent one's client. No where is this tension more apparent than in a situation where one obtains privileged information belonging to the opposing party. There are three options facing a legal professional confronted with such a situation; using the privileged information without notifying the opposing party how it was obtained,
(Chizek, 2003) The Role legal nurse consultant may provide service in a number of roles, including but not limited to: Consulting expert Testifying expert Facility-based investigator Trainer and in-service presenter Peer reviewer Quality improvement, risk management, claims management Liability insurance marketer and clinical resource" (Chizek, 2003) As standards of care constantly change, medical and nursing staff must keep informed of current standard to develop and/or modify policies and procedures, which must be maintained and secured indefinitely. In the