http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660 A Blog for and about Professional Paralegals and the Paralegal Profession Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:39:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660&cpage=1#comment-1110 Nancy Lee Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:03 +0000 http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660#comment-1110 What difference does it make anyway, the legal secretary does most of the work anyway in an attorney's office. People just can't afford to pay for an attorney and they have made back their college tuition 100 times over, I am sure and still charging outrageous fees. What difference does it make anyway, the legal secretary does most of the work anyway in an attorney’s office. People just can’t afford to pay for an attorney and they have made back their college tuition 100 times over, I am sure and still charging outrageous fees.

]]> http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660&cpage=1#comment-960 maria nichols Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:48:17 +0000 http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660#comment-960 I totally agree with your coments, I have been helping people, to fight their rights, but always very fearful about the ABA I can see on this coutry needy people is crying out for their rights, I feel so bad, when the poor people, go to this attorneys and some of these aorneys, once they get their money, they do not work on their cases, and run them out of the offices, in some cases, the client do not even see the Attorney's face, some atorneys do not iven bother to work in their cases, some atorneys never ever answer back a telephone to the clients, I have been working so may years to help people to defend their rights, I have to study Paralegal, so I can try to help them more, but I am always with fears, I wish I can help them more but as paralegas we feel with our hands tight up. it is so sad that the people do not have their choice to help people, just because Aba comes with more rlules, because of their rules, nobody gets affected but the needy people, because, they have to pay thousands to attorneys, that some of them do not iven work on their case, Any way, I just hope we as Independent paralegals, will have more freedom to help the needy, and if there is something i can do to help, please let me knowbecause the am american bar association, should not take over, affecting more and more he needy. I totally agree with your coments, I have been helping people, to fight their rights, but always very fearful about the ABA I can see on this coutry needy people is crying out for their rights, I feel so bad, when the poor people, go to this attorneys and some of these aorneys, once they get their money, they do not work on their cases, and run them out of the offices, in some cases, the client do not even see the Attorney’s face, some atorneys do not iven bother to work in their cases, some atorneys never ever answer back a telephone to the clients,
I have been working so may years to help people to defend their rights, I have to study Paralegal, so I can try to help them more, but I am always with fears, I wish I can help them more but as paralegas we feel with our hands tight up. it is so sad that the people do not have their choice to help people, just because Aba comes with more rlules, because of their rules, nobody gets affected but the needy people, because, they have to pay thousands to attorneys, that some of them do not iven work on their case,
Any way, I just hope we as Independent paralegals, will have more freedom to help the needy, and if there is something i can do to help, please let me knowbecause the am
american bar association, should not take over, affecting more and more he needy.

]]> http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660&cpage=1#comment-513 The Empowered Paralegal » Blog Archive » Pro se Perspective on “Independent” Paralegals and UPL Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:26:40 +0000 http://theempoweredparalegal.com/?p=660#comment-513 [...] have received some responses to my post of Efrem Martin’s email on the Colorado State Bar Association’s charge that he is engaged in UPL. Here is on from the [...] [...] have received some responses to my post of Efrem Martin’s email on the Colorado State Bar Association’s charge that he is engaged in UPL. Here is on from the [...]

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