In-House Paralegals

Reposted from a comment by Ayelette Robinson on GeekLawBlog.com The best professional advice I’ve heard:  Make the people around you look good. These words that were passed along to me encompass so much. Doing your job well is not simply about taking care of your job responsibilities or being a good team player. It’s about [...]

Whether your audience is one person or a room full of folks, you win the day when others want to continue their dialogue with you and hear more of what you have to say. Most of us never ask ourselves what we want to achieve in giving a presentation to (or leading a discussion among) [...]

OK, let’s really drill down here for a moment. Suppose you had available specific detailed information about another person’s business position and responsibilities, career background and current aspirations and everything that personal considered important about her or his personal life (likes and dislikes, loved ones, friends, family, recreational activities, hobbies, etc., etc.). Now let’s assume [...]

Looking for an unmatched opportunity to advance your status and recognition at work?  Consider volunteering to be or just silently assuming the position of “Chief Value Officer” for your law department. Become the Chief Value Officer With escalating pressure from management for the in-house legal team to become more efficient, reduce costs and gain more value [...]

“At DuPont, we’ve created a culture where paralegals are partners with the business people as well as colleagues and partners to the lawyers with whom they work.” according to Marybeth Davies, manager of the paralegal program at the company’s law depart. DuPont Legal is among the ten companies recognized in the September issue of InsideCounsel magazine as a 2010 “most [...]