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Florida Makes a Move to License Paralegals: Coming to your state soon?

Apr 14, 2011

FLORIDA BILLS PUSH FOR LICENSING, DEFINITION OF PARALEGALS Companion bills in the Florida Legislature are currently under consideration to make Florida the first state in the country to require licenses for paralegals. The bills require the Florida Supreme Court to develop a licensing and continuing education scheme and make it a felony for unlicensed people to identify themselves as paralegals. The bills, sponsored by state Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, and state Rep. Richard Steinberg, D-Miami Beach, were filed March 9 and have been assigned to the judiciary committees. They were written by the Florida Alliance of Paralegal Associations, a consortium... Read more →

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Posted at 10:25 PM in Associations, Bar association, Careers, Current events, Legal writing | | Comments (1)

Tags: Florida Supreme Court, licensing, paralegal

Paralegal Student Article about 1st Amendment

May 07, 2007

Impressed with this letter to the editor by a paralegal student about a new Indiana license plate (published in The Journal Gazette): "The pending lawsuit regarding the 'In God We Trust' license plates has a few attention-catching flaws. As a paralegal student with a special interest in constitutional law, I found the suit to be a serious mistake. "The first reason comes from the popular misunderstanding of the First Amendment. Instead of reading, 'there shall be a wall of separation between church and state,' or 'no law that even so much as allows religious liberties can be made,' the amendment... Read more →

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Posted at 12:11 PM in Civil rights, Constitutional law, Current events | | Comments (1)

"D.C. Law Firm Suspends Woman Who Worked as Escort"

May 04, 2007

ABC News finds another person involved in the growing D.C. Madam scandal: "A legal secretary at one of Washington's most prominent and well-connected law firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, has been suspended after telling her bosses she secretly worked at night for the escort service run by the so-called D.C. Madam, Jeane Palfrey. "The woman both serviced clients and, at times, helped to run the business, Palfrey told ABC News in an interview to be broadcast on '20/20' Friday. "The firm said it would not make her name public. "According to e-mails the woman sent to Palfrey... Read more →

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Posted at 04:47 PM in Criminal investigation, Current events, Legal secretaries, Television | | Comments (2)

Paralegal's "Obama" MySpace Page

May 03, 2007

Only in the brand-new world of user-managed online politics could news like this be reported: "The manager of an unofficial Barack Obama MySpace page tells MTV News how the campaign took his URL. "'They took it ... they just took it from me.' "That was how Joe Anthony described what happened this week when the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama took control of the unofficial MySpace page Anthony set up in Obama's name in November of 2004. "Granted, though clearly labeled as unofficial, the site has the valuable URL www.MySpace.com/barackobama and when the Obama camp approached Anthony in... Read more →

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Posted at 11:59 AM in Current events, Politics, Weblogs | | Comments (1)

"New York's Most Obnoxious Lawyer"

Apr 25, 2007

Hmmm, I'm sure someone could nominate lawyers "worthy" of this "honor" in other states. But check out the "competition" in this Village Voice article: "'With so many jerks working as attorneys in New York City, you'd think there would be no way to determine who's the single biggest pain in the ass. You could be wrong. The winner (or loser) is arguably Kenneth Heller. "You can't count the number of crooks, shysters, or idiots among the city's 74,000 lawyers. But Kenny Heller was disbarred for simply being obnoxious. After 50 years of heaping abuse on everyone within earshot and hurling... Read more →

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Posted at 07:50 PM in Current events, Ethics, Malpractice | | Comments (0)

"Virginia Tech Tragedy and the Law"

Apr 22, 2007

A compilation of legal & factual issues surrounding this tragic event has been posted on Legal Blog Watch by lawyer & blogger Carolyn Elefant: "As our nation continues to mourn the victims of the senseless Virginia Tech massacre, many bloggers' thoughts turn to the question of whether this tragedy could have prevented or whether others like it can be prevented in the future. While now's not the time to assign blame (and indeed, without additional information, we really can't make any definitive judgments), here's a list of some of the issues that will be generating additional discussion in the weeks... Read more →

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Posted at 08:56 PM in Criminal investigation, Current events, Web/Tech, Weblogs | | Comments (0)

Editorial: "Gonzales v. Gonzales"

Apr 22, 2007

All politics aside, this is not the kind of testimony you want to hear from a witness on your side! Here's the opinion of the New York Times: "If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday [4-19-2007] to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge. "Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive... Read more →

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Posted at 07:40 PM in Careers, Current events, Managing people | | Comments (0)

"Deleting embarrassing e-mails isn't easy, experts say"

Apr 13, 2007

So, you think those embarrassing emails sent to the computer's trash can are truly deleted, right? Uh, no: "If Karl Rove or other White House staffers tried to delete sensitive e-mails from their computers, experts said, investigators usually could recover all or most of them. "The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating whether the White House or the Republican National Committee erased 'a large volume of e-mails' that may be related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. [snip] "Deleting a document or e-mail doesn't remove the file from a computer's hard drive or a backup server.... Read more →

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Posted at 08:55 PM in Communication technology, Current events, Email communication, Federal law, Privacy, Records management, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"Still Guilty After All These Years"

Apr 08, 2007

Very interesting op-ed in the NY Times from author & lawyer Scott Turow, all about how advances in forensic technology may also impact statutes of limitations. He raises some intriguing questions about changes in law & the passage of time: "THIS Friday a 33-year-old man named Juan Luna will go on trial here for the murder of seven people in a Brown’s Chicken restaurant in Palatine, Ill., on Jan. 8, 1993. The investigation of the murders, in which the victims’ bloody corpses were discovered in the restaurant freezer, languished for more than a decade until Mr. Luna’s DNA was identified... Read more →

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Posted at 04:06 PM in Constitutional law, Criminal investigation, Criminal law, Current events, DNA, Evidence, Forensics | | Comments (0)

"Paralegal pleads not guilty in fraud, theft"

Apr 04, 2007

I hate news like this about paralegals. Innocent until proven guilty, of course....: "A Ware County paralegal was released on $20,000 bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to federal charges of bank fraud and theft of government funds. "Gina A. Wooten, 50, of Waycross, is accused of stealing more than $110,000 in a bank fraud scheme that an FBI investigation revealed involved forged signatures on federal bankruptcy checks. "Wooten also is accused of stealing more than $1,000 from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The money was in the form of official checks from the bankruptcy trustee, a March 8 federal indictment... Read more →

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Posted at 11:48 AM in Criminal investigation, Current events, Fraud, White collar crime | | Comments (0)

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