By Holly A. Sheriff, MSLS, Edited By Lawrence A. Constance, BME, AS You’ve received plenty of emails that end with “sent from my iPhone or my iPad” or other mobile email signatures. But are you and your staff using them the right way? Is your law firm sending the message you want or need to [..]
With the Latest Technology By: Holly A. Sheriff, MSLS, Editor: Lawrence A. Constance, BME, AS In the last decade, the legal community and technology have finally caught up with my vision for Best Virtual Paralegal. On February 2, 1991, I set the original mission in motion when I drafted a small business plan on a [..]
By: Holly A. Sheriff, MSLS, Editor: Lawrence A. Constance, BME, AS As we begin the New Year, many attorneys are looking for ways to reduce their overhead expenses in the coming months and have decided to add a virtual paralegal to their team. Here are the top two tips for utilizing a virtual paralegal in any [..]
At the request of a reader, our editorial team has compiled a list of some of the legal industry’s best practices for proofreading and editing. Proofreading is tough to do unless you are a proofreading and editing someone else’s work. What do you do when you are the attorney or paralegal asked to not only [..]
By: Holly A. Sheriff, MSLS Edited by: Jackie Van Dyke, MPS, CP – Legal Writing Trainer Being a paralegal entrepreneur is rewarding, fun, and arduous work. Becoming a paralegal entrepreneur was easy. It’s operating a business; my competition finds to be hard. Some days are better than others. Sometimes you have one or two clients, [..]
As a content writer, I am always asked, to whip up a quirky, short, eye-catching copy for a tweet, blog headline or Facebook for my colleagues and friends. The question usually sounds something like this, “Hey, can you whip up a funny or catchy one-liner for me? Just a couple of words — how hard [..]
Free Gmail accounts and lawyers have been the topic of discussions and debates from coast to coast since Gmail’s inception on April 1, 2004. I ‘d been working as a freelancer for over ten years by the time Gmail launched. I can remember having conversations with colleges about safety issues with free email. To me, [..]
Today is the day you’ve gone virtual. You finally hired a virtual paralegal. You’ve signed a service agreement, and you’ve spoken to the virtual paralegal, now what? Even though the hiring or retaining process is over, your work is not complete. Adding a virtual paralegal to your [..]
Running a law practice requires a lot of help: an accountant, an insurance agent, a mentor, and maybe even a partner or an associate attorney, but do you really need a paralegal? There are times when a paralegal may be necessary. Here are a few scenarios in which your firm may need the services of [..]