I when I started to get interested in the program Paralegal Technology as you probably do I had a lot of questions about what it was all about. In this career summary I will tell you all about what they do for a living and what makes them so important to the law system in general. I will also describe the whole process on how to become a Paralegal technician.
Being a Paralegal Technician is like being someone who has access to all the information on cases and information about the law system. It has the goal of helping lawyers and their clients to strengthen their arguments and finding similar case to help base their arguments in facts and logic to give them more importance and credibility.
What a Paralegal technician does can seem quite simple but can actually be quite difficult and time managing. The goal of a Paralegal Technician is to aid the law firms at which they work. Theirs aim is to amass information about the surroundings of a case. They have to assemble as much information and similar cases as they can before the time limit. They are also charged with making the legal document like a statement of claim or divorce documents.
What they do is write legal documents which are closest to their submitting dates and will browse law registry sites to find cases that will strengthen the cases that they are working on. The also have to keep contacts with the lawyers to make sure everything is in order and that the lawyers are not lacking any information that could be of crucial help.
They can have different schedule depending on the firms need. Sometimes their will be different team of Paralegal Technicians for different time of the day so that they can achieve the best possible outcome.
You can become a Paralegal Technician by doing a 3-year-long study Paralegal Technology at any Cegep that has the program. During those 3 years you will learn how to write different law documents and on how to react in the work environment. You will also learn how to use the many law registers and document like the civil codes and laws.
Paralegal Technicians make around 51 000 a year. They have a starting salary of 35 000 a year and can have a salary of 72 000 at the end of their careers.
They may have to learn new laws that come out every year. They also often have to learn to work with different software and sites to improve their research.
The dangers of being a Paralegal Technician are probably that there is a risk of having to work more to complete a case in time. You will also have to be really aware of the laws that corner and tell you what you are able to do and what you restricted from doing. The consequences for not following the rules can be really strict even some leading to maybe get fired from your job.
The legal department will most likely not change because it requires too much humanity to manage and can't really be replaced by an A.I. because of the importance of morals and that robots will most likely never take the place of humans in that regard. The possibility of having fewer workers because of the software s accuracy and ability to find important things faster will reduce the amount of workers but I don't think they will ever be totally replaced
Paralegal Technicians are pretty close to the average age of retirement and retire at around 62.
I am currently finishing my second year and can't wait to actually experience it and to be able to put to actual use all the things that I have learned throughout my learning experience.
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