How Often Is a Jury Wrong?

Nobody’s Perfect   In a perfect world, at every trial, the innocent would be acquitted, and the guilty would be convicted each time with perfect accuracy. Alas, it is not a perfect world.  As statistics are now telling us, juries get it wrong many times.   In a set of 271 cases from four areas, juries gave wrong verdicts in at least one out of eight cases, according to “Estimating the Accuracy of Jury Verdicts,” a paper by...

What Things Can Lawyers Delegate to Paralegals?

The Correct Use of Paralegals The American Bar Association has some updated suggestions for the appropriate distribution of work to paralegals. Here are the current guidelines:   Guideline...

Paralegal Gets Bitten by the Entrepreneur Bug

  Persistence Pays   Victoria Ring offers an inspiring story to paralegals who want to forge their own path. With a little chutzpah, Ring revolutionized the world of online bankruptcy forms...

Lawyers Need Lawyers: The Rise in Sexual Harassment Complaints by Paralegals

Say What?   There’s a blitz of paralegals reporting sexual harassment by their employers in recent months, and stunning amounts of compensation are being award to the victims. One would hope...

Are You an Indispensable Paralegal?

Five ways to ensure that attorneys won’t be able to live without you   A talented paralegal is an attorney’s vital agent in conducting business in the hectic world of documents, phone...