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What is the correct meaning of "paralegal"?


What is the correct meaning of "paralegal"?

http://www.nala.org/whatis.htm

A legal assistant or paralegal is a person qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. (Adopted by the ABA in 1997)

Part trained basically - although cannot advise clients direct.

Paralegals are individuals who assist lawyers in the delivery of legal services. Legal assistants and paralegals cannot give legal advice to consumers of legal services.

All of the above, except in my view, they are slaves to the timesheet.

As a legal secretary, I don't have that worry, which is why I've resisted becoming a paralegal after all these years. Not that much difference in pay and more autonomy in most cases.

The term applies to a non-lawyer who performs routine tasks requiring some knowledge of the law and legal procedures and is employed by a legal firm or or who works free-lance in carrying out various routine tasks for firms of lawyers. Some people pursue a specific course of training for this work, others are people who are qualified on paper as lawyers, but who cannot get work which is fully suited to their aptitude and experience and so work at an inferior level.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos114.htm

Basically they do all the lawyer's work besides showing up to court....

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