Legal Assistant's Corner: We Do Know What We Know

One of the readers of my preceding article commented: "While I do not know the entirety, I do recognize what I understand." Despite my admission that legal assistants do not know the whole thing associated with regulation, there are situations in which we do recognise the entirety.

Legal assistants are the detailers of the criminal profession. We make the attorney's imaginative and prescient in their approach to a purchaser's hassle come to fruition. We get 'er executed.

Many legal professionals most effective understand their part in the technique, e.G., meting out prison advice to the consumer, representing the patron in courtroom, and wording documentation to fine constitute the client, and so forth.; but, they do not always apprehend the information of the method along with proper formatting/dissemination of documentation, which documentation might be maximum green to serve the purchaser's needs, and so on.

On the flip facet of this equation is the client's false impression of a felony assistant's role in their case. Clients frequently most effective recall us boundaries with the aid of questioning us, our understanding, and our techniques - they may from time to time even flat out argue with us. We take into consideration that you're captivated with your case and need it accomplished the way you need it carried out; however, what you may view as a simple directly line from A to B absolutely calls for detours thru A(1), A(2), A(3), and so forth.

You have entrusted the attorney you hired to represent you to the first-class of their potential. The legal professional has entrusted the felony assistant(s) they employed to assist them accomplish their cease desires. Legal assistants are continuously honing their crimson tape slicing skills to a exceptional edge and, whilst person strategies may additionally vary from office to workplace, we all realize what we are doing... As a minimum maximum of the time.

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Heather Carr is a Legal Assistant, Bookkeeper and Office/Marketing Manager with the law firm Hunt & Associates, PC in Portland, Oregon. She is skilled and proficient in the fields of civil litigation, contracts, enterprise regulation, circle of relatives law, elder law, probate, property planning, private harm, own family law, real estate, and crook defense.