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Originally Posted by glatt
There are a few of us. I'm a legal assistant who is in management now. I help run a department of ~100 legal assistants for a big patent firm.
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glatt: I'm very impressed. That's an important and responsible position. Beaucoup bucks, too!
Just so you guys know, I am a paralegal. The term "legal assistant" is going out of style. I have been in the legal support business for 20 years, am a certified professional legal secretary and a certified paralegal.
I have always worked for small firms in general or boutique practice, so I'm a do-it-all kind of gal. I also teach a franchise paralegal course, which I love to do (even though the course itself has a few . . . problems). I have also prepared and presented seminars on legal support staff ethics. "Attorney ethics" means something a little different to me than it might to the general public.
Oh! and I went to the Supreme Court!
We lost though--the opinion came down this week. Doesn't matter (to me--to the client it does)--it will always be an experience I cherish.