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Andrew Venturelli, a Passaic City lawyer who specializes in personal injury cases, was among the first to try [Gary Zalarick]'s software. Venturelli had two full-time secretaries and one full-time paralegal at the time and he has since pruned his staff to one secretary and one assistant. "If a secretary could earlier do 10 complaints a day, with this we can do 30 or 40 a day," he says.
Zalarick, a partner in the Garfield law firm of Sammarro & Zalarick, launched the software company last year with Shaleen Gupta, a former senior executive at Dendrite Inc., a Bridgewater producer of salesforce-automation software for pharmaceutical companies that was acquired by France's Cegedim in May. The product costs $650 per user per year plus a $250 subscription fee to cover legal updates and t...
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For many solo and small firm practitioners like me, our professional success is influenced by the quality of assistance we receive from our nonlawyer ...
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A person, working under the supervision of a lawyer, qualified through education, training, or work experience to perform substan...
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- Richard Carter, Sci-Mahanoy Para-Legal Assistant/ on Behalf of Himself and Prison Population v. James Mcgrady, Captain, And; Mary Canino, Hearing Examiner, in Their Individual and Official Capacity (Eastern District of Pa Civil # 94-Cv-7163) Richard Carter, on Behalf of Himself and all those Similarly Situated v. Martin L. Dragovich, Superintendent; Edward J. Klem, Superintendent of Centralized Services; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; Sci At Mahanoy; James Mcgrady, Captain (Eastern District of Pa Civil # 96-Cv-6496) Richard Carter, Appellant, 292 F.3d 152 (3rd Cir. 2002)
Joseph A. Sullivan, Edward W. Ferruggia, Kimberly M. Kaplan (Argued), Lisa M. Scidurlo, Adam C. Bonin, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, LLP, Philade...
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In response to increasing demand for qualified legal assistants, Perry Technical Institute is adding a new, accredited training program.
The 12-month Legal Assistant/Paralegal Program will prepare students for entry-level legal office jobs in law firms and government offices. It will include training in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Students will also learn about civil and criminal law, legal research and writing techniques.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOLDS A HEARING ON THE NOMINATIONS OF DAWN JOHNSEN TO BE THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE OFFICE O...
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LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY SAUERBREY HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE RED CROSS AND...
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Hidden behind legal briefs and the Restatement (Second) of Torts, an awful lot of lawyers have a Harry Potter novel or seven tucked away.
That shouldn't be too surprising, given that the series has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide. But now there is proof, in the form of a recent book co-edited by Jeffrey E. Thomas, an assistant dean at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, that lawyers take Harry Potter very, very seriously.