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Overview
From Initial Pleadings to Trial Preparation
Successfully navigating through litigation depends on the cohesiveness of the entire litigation team, with paralegals playing an integral part. Are you prepared to steer through the tasks and duties involved? This insightful course will provide you with the tools you need to effectively handle pleadings, motions, and briefs, as well as provide tips for organizing and maintaining the case. Hone your litigation skills and prove your value to your firm - register today!
- Learn tips for getting pleadings, motions, and briefs court ready.
- Discuss how to create and maintain discovery requests and responses.
- Gain valuable insight on preparing accurate and reliable deposition summaries.
- Review methods to stay on top of managing and organizing documents and case files.
- Explore ways to proficiently plan for and assist with cases that go to trial.
Abbreviated Agenda
- Preparing Pleadings, Motions, and Briefs
- Discovery Requests, Responses, and Document Productions
- Depositions: Scheduling, Preparation, and Summaries
- Litigation Case Management, Organization, and Communication
- Trial Preparation and Assistance
- Ethics for Litigation Paralegals
Credit Details
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total |
|---|---|---|
| California MCLE Paralegal |
|
6 Total |
| Delaware Certified Paralegal Program |
|
6 Total |
| Florida Registered Paralegal |
|
6 Total |
| Indiana Paralegal CLE |
|
6 Total |
| NALA |
|
6 Total |
| Montana CLE Credit for Paralegals |
|
6 Total |
| North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education |
|
6 Total |
| New Mexico Paralegal Division, State Bar of |
|
6 Total |
| Ohio Certified Paralegals |
|
6 Total |
| NFPA |
|
6 Total |
| Texas State Bar of Paralegal Division |
|
6 Total |
| Washington Paralegal Association |
|
6 Total |
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Paralegal
Agenda
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Preparing Pleadings, Motions, and Briefs
- Formatting Pleadings
- Service and Filing (Including E-Filing)
- Prepping Common Motions
- Opposition, Affidavits, Memorandums, and Orders
- Finalizing Briefs, Hearing Binders, and Hearing Prep
- Tips for Cite-Checking
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Discovery Requests, Responses, and Document Productions
- Preparing Disclosure Statements
- Discovery Requests
- Discovery Responses and Objections
- Document Retrieval, Review, and Production
- Collecting, Reviewing, and Producing Electronic Documents
- Creating Privilege Logs
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Depositions: Scheduling, Preparation, and Summaries
- Setting Up/Scheduling Depositions
- Preparation and Service of Subpoenas
- Deposition Preparation
- Reviewing and Summarizing Depositions
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Litigation Case Management, Organization, and Communication
- Calendaring and Docketing
- Tracking Systems
- Document Management
- Organizing Case Files
- Coordinating Communications Between Parties
- Leveraging Technology in Litigation
- Savvy Legal Research and Online Investigation Tips
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Trial Preparation and Assistance
- Jury Instructions
- Organizing Exhibits and Other Demonstrative Evidence
- Exhibit and Witness Lists
- Preparing Trial Binders
- Trial Site Preparation
- Assisting at Trial and Post-Trial Wrap-Up
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Ethics for Litigation Paralegals
- Avoiding UPL in Litigation
- Handling Client Files
- Billing and Timekeeping
- Ethics of Discovery and Evidence
- Maintaining Confidentiality
Who Should Attend
This intermediate level course will provide litigation best practices attendees can put to work immediately. Those who should attend include:
- Paralegals
- Legal Technicians
- Legal Assistants
- Legal Support Staff
Speakers
Speaker bio
Matthew May
is an attorney with Rosenblum & Reisman, Attorneys at Law, where he practices in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, car accident cases, trucking accidents, civil rights, and criminal defense. Mr. May earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. He is a member of the Memphis and Tennessee bar associations.
Speaker bio
Amber James
is the founder and CEO of New Beginnings Family Law, P.C., where her main areas of practice are divorce, child custody, parental alienation, mediation, adoption, and surrogacy. Prior to opening her own practice, she worked in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County Domestic Relations Division as a law clerk for the Honorable Ralph A. Ferguson, Jr., and in the firm of Shaw-Anderson, LLC. Ms. James earned her B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her J.D. degree from the Birmingham School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Alabama and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. James is also a board-certified family law trial advocate, having received her board certification from the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar, and the American, Morgan County and Huntsville-Madison County bar associations. Ms. James has previously been recognized as Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020 by the Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship in Huntsville, Alabama. Her firm was chosen as the Professional Services Business of the Year in 2020 by the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce. Her firm is consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Huntsville, Alabama and recently received the designation of Best Place for Working Parents.
Speaker bio
Anne Hughes
, ACP, FCP, is a Florida Registered Paralegal with The Florida Bar and works with the law firm of Roper & Roper, P.A., as a litigation paralegal. Ms. Hughes has been active in local paralegal associations for the past six years, including coordinating and instructing at the Certified Paralegal Review Course for the Central Florida Paralegal Association (CFPA). Ms. Hughes earned her A.S. degree, with high honors, from an ABA-approved paralegal program and her B.A. degree in legal studies, with specializations in transactional law and trial advocacy. She has the designation of advanced certification in discovery through the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA); and has taken the state-specific examination for the Florida Certified Paralegal (FCP) through the Paralegal Association of Florida (PAF). Ms. Hughes has been an adjunct instructor at ITT Technical Institute's Paralegal Studies Program and currently serves on the Legal Studies Advisory Boards of Seminole State College and the University of Central Florida. She is currently the student relations chair, webmaster and second vice president of the CFPA and has recently been featured in the upcoming Pearson/Prentice-Hall text book entitled, The Professional Paralegal: A Guide to Finding a Job and Career Success.
Speaker bio
S. Leigh King
, J.D., LL.M., earned her J.D. degree in May 2002 from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M University School of Law), where she was a senior editor on the Law Review. During that tenure, Ms. King was a judicial intern at both the federal and state appellate courts in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned her LL.M. degree in intellectual property law from Southern Methodist University in May 2009. Currently, Ms. King practices civil trial law including breach of contract cases, consumer rights, deceptive trade practices, consumer law, family law, and estate planning, She is a former auxiallary professor at Lyon College, a former professor at Emory & Henry College, and a former professor at Concordia University of Texas. Ms. King is the author of three law review articles. Her first law review article titled "While You Were Sleeping," 11 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 291 (2008), has been incorporated in its entirety in the casebook "Cyber Crime and Digital Evidence Materials and Cases" by Prof. Thomas K. Clancy at the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law located at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Ms. King is the author of "Abandonment: How the Texas Legislature and Family Court System Fail to Meet the Needs of Texas Children," 51 S. Tex. L. Rev. 75 (2009); and "Failure to Launch: How the Delinquent Politics and Policies of the Texas Legislature Have Failed to Remedy Texas' Antiquated Judicial System and How Voters Have Accepted the Status Quo for Far Too Long," 16 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 369 (2010). Prior to entering law school, she was the senior paralegal for a boutique law firm in Fort Worth, Texas. Currently, Ms. King practices law in central Texas and is an active mentor for Southern Methodist University law students.
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