I would suggest that if you were to plan to get a paralegal certificate, try to get one that is ABA approved. Paralegal certificates have become a dime a dozen, and so many of those graduates expect a lot of money for no experience. Many of those courses are not even taught by attorneys or paralegals, or even JDs, and really cannot answer some of the questions that come up in class. I spent years as a legal secretary with a paralegal certificate, and the attorneys in the office would come to me more often than other secretaries when they had complex work or needed research or didn't have a paralegal who was not working on some other project.

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Lynne Masters-Lee
Masterspieces Solutions LLC