Sentences with phrase «maintained by a paralegal»

For example, discovery requests locked inside a spreadsheet maintained by a paralegal on a local hard drive is a good illustration.

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Trouble is, the state bars have sometimes used this power to maintain a monopoly on the delivery of legal services, by intimidating and threatening paralegals, document preparers and others with useful knowledge to keep them from competing with lawyers.

Clients have no insight into the portfolio of cases maintained by their lawyers or paralegals.

We maintain a reasonable case load so that each person gets our full attention, and each case is handled directly by our Nassau County lawyer, not an assistant or paralegal.

If any person knowingly violates any of the provisions of G.S. 84 - 4 through G.S. 84 - 6 or G.S. 84 - 9, fraudulently holds himself or herself out as a North Carolina certified paralegal by use of the designations set forth in G.S. 84 - 37 (a), or knowingly aids and abets another person to commit the unauthorized practice of law, in addition to any other liability imposed pursuant to this Chapter or any other applicable law, any person who is damaged by the unlawful acts set out in this section shall be entitled to maintain a private cause of action to recover damages and reasonable attorneys» fees and other injunctive relief as ordered by court.

Following her study of paralegals several years later, Paula Pevato observed that there was «substantial evidence... suggest [ing] that the legal profession's hostility toward paralegals is motivated, to a large degree, by a self - serving desire to maintain a monopoly over the delivery of legal services to the public.»

Performing investigations, interviewing people associated with the case, maintaining case related documents and updating them are some of the basic job functions carried out by litigation paralegals.