Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She turned down the paid opportunity she was offered to work as a legal secretary. A daughter of the West, her first job after graduating from high school two years early and Stanford Law School at a breathtaking two-year clip was to work as an unpaid county attorney. Such was the lot of women in law at the time.

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Clio

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The docketing process at a law firm can involve a variety of key players, including lawyers, paralegals , and other legal support staff, such as legal secretaries. For any legal matter, firms can also generate deadlines and events based on documents received from the court or opposing counsel. How does docketing work?

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NSLT

JULY 5, 2016

Making numbering Interrogatories and Requests for Production/Admission Easy Numbering requests for production and requests for admission is something that legal secretaries and attorneys loathe. Microsoft Word has auto-numbering features that can make things like this easier. Read the Article: Here

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NSLT

JULY 5, 2016

Making numbering Interrogatories and Requests for Production/Admission Easy Numbering requests for production and requests for admission is something that legal secretaries and attorneys loathe. Microsoft Word has auto-numbering features that can make things like this easier. Read the Article: Here

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 8, 2023

And sadly, it reduced the need for legal secretaries. Today, most lawyers type their own first drafts and do edits themselves. This change fundamentally changed the law office and its dynamics. Generative AI will do the same thing but perhaps on a broader scale.

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TechLaw Crossroads

APRIL 8, 2023

And sadly, it reduced the need for legal secretaries. Today, most lawyers type their own first drafts and do edits themselves. This change fundamentally changed the law office and its dynamics. Generative AI will do the same thing but perhaps on a broader scale.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 2, 2023

Suppose next week begins with one of your top paralegals or legal secretaries giving you two weeks’ notice. Maybe they are moving to another location or another local law firm. But now you have an opening to fill. The first response is not about filling the position.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 31, 2023

Suppose next week begins with one of your top paralegals or legal secretaries giving you two weeks’ notice. Maybe they are moving to another location or another local law firm. But now you have an opening to fill. The first response is not about filling the position.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

I soon discovered that they were listed in the Office and Administrative Support job family.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But then when times get busy, they’re adding paralegals, legal secretaries. And what we think we’re seeing is that these mid sized law firms are actually keeping a very consistent amount of workload per lawyer. And they’re recording more time and doing more work. And then when things slow down, then we see again that ratio drops.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 31, 2023

I soon discovered that they were listed in the Office and Administrative Support job family.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But then when times get busy, they’re adding paralegals, legal secretaries. And what we think we’re seeing is that these mid sized law firms are actually keeping a very consistent amount of workload per lawyer. And they’re recording more time and doing more work. And then when things slow down, then we see again that ratio drops.

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LawSites

MAY 31, 2022

It’s interesting because we’ve been around longer than paralegals, longer than legal secretaries. I’ve hired people who were legal secretaries. I think our “profession” really had never been considered a profession until we all started banding together like this. We were kind of like Bob Cratchit.

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