o you ever wish you could services to those who could not
hang out with the crew of typically afford them. Paralegals
Law & Order? Becoming a support lawyers and are trained
paralegal is one way to enter the to help law offices run smoothly.
law. It will not be as glamorous
as Law & Order, but less glamour
does not mean less prestige or Generally, there are two types of
satisfaction. paralegals: litigation and
corporate. Litigation paralegals
Paralegals make lawyers look are in charge of documents for
prepared. Also known as legal trial cases. Most of the routine
assistants, paralegals may work work that falls to litigation
for a lawyer, but they may also paralegals involves ordering and
work for a corporation, the indexing the huge of amount of
government, or any organization paper needed for trials: motions,
that deals with the law. A briefs, depositions, etc. They
beginning paralegal will probably also interview witnesses, do
spend most of his or her time research, and draft paperwork.
filing, photocopying, organizing Corporate paralegals, on the
papers and running errands. But other hand, spend most of their
paralegals can also do some of days organizing the paperwork
the work resembles those exciting associated with business
crime dramas. Paralegals may help dealings. A corporate paralegal,
draft legal documents and much like a litigation paralegal,
interview witnesses. makes sure the sets of paperwork
are identical, ordering
The paralegal profession documents, and photocopying them.
developed during the 1960s, when
people were trained to help The educational background of
lawyers in order to provide legal paralegal will help to determine
the type of work he or she will including recent graduates, in
be doing. If, for example, a addition to those who have taken
paralegal took social work classes to become a certified
classes in college, she may have paralegal, all have a good chance
a better chance of working in a at finding a paralegal job.
social justice firm or government Working as a paralegal may help
office firm. Paralegals with some you get into law school and help
medical knowledge might work for you make powerful connections
a malpractice lawyer. with lawyers, businesspeople, or
government officials. Even if
Though a paralegal's work may not becoming a paralegal is not your
always seem exciting, it is an dream job, it can still make for
excellent way to enter law, and an excellent entry into the
to see if law might be the right professional world.
career. College graduates,
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