This article is very good for someone who does not know what a paralegal is and would like to learn more about the job. It tells you what a typical day has a paralegal is and what type of work you have to do. It also explains who you can work for and were you can work as a paralegal.
Being a paralegal is assisting a lawyer. You learn the bolts and nuts of the legal profession you also have to make a lot of research about law and rules. We can not practice law or give legal advice to someone that is what makes us different from a lawyer.
A paralegal usually helps prepare cases by doing research on cases and court decisions. They write reports and draft documents for litigation. When they gathered all the information they need for the case they prepare a report for the attorney. The paralegals that work in other areas usually prepares documents like contracts, estate planning and many more things.
It can vary depending on their field of work or were they work. For example, they do case management, calculating deadlines, drafting a lot of type of documents, contacting clients and do legal research.
A Paralegal can work in a lot of different places like government agencies, litigation and many more thing, but they very often are hired by lawyers.
According to the bureau of labor statistics, you need to get an associate's degree. You also need to be a strong writer
They approximately make 50 410$ per year with a typical entry level. But when you gain more experience your salary will go up.
They will get on the Jon training, but they need to be good communicators, strong writers, and they need to be able to resolve conflict.
They are not any dangers when you become a paralegal. I would say that you always need to be up to date and very careful with your work because the lawyer's reputation depends on you.
I would say that there is about 5% chance that we get replaced by robots because we have to communicate a lot with clients and do a lot of research and work in team and that is something that only a human can do.
The legal age to retire is 65 in Quebec, but I think it depends on witch country you live.When you retire you leave with a lot of knowledge because you assessed the lawyer for so many years that you are a professional in law, and you are able to answer so many questions in different subjects because of the cases you did in your years of working as a paralegal.
To conclude I love what being a paralegal involves, but I want to have more power and be able to represent people in court and give juridical advice to people who need help, and this is why I will go to university and work as a paralegal to gain experience, and I will become a notary.