In 2004, Paralegal jobs and legal assistant’s jobs amounted to about 224,000 positions in all sectors of the economy of the United States. 84% of these had Paralegal qualifications above both Associate’s and Bachelor’s Degree, with about 10% Paralegals who had higher degrees leaving only about 6% Paralegals who have been trained on the job and working without formal Paralegal education.
As was in the beginning, private law firms controlled the lion share of employing about 70% of all working Paralegals then; today, according to present day employment statistics, this number has fallen as the Paralegal profession continues to expand into deferent fields of human endeavor. Many paralegals and legal assistants these days work for corporate legal departments and various levels of government agencies and None governmental organizations..
The U.S. Department of Justice is the largest employer of Paralegal within the Federal Government, followed by the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. State governments and Counties are also increasingly employing Paralegals to help make legal services available to the common man on the street.
More Paralegals are setting up private Paralegal offices in states where the law provides such privileges and work as freelance legal assistants, contracting their services to attorneys or corporate legal departments.
It is hoped that in the nearest future the Paralegal profession would be robust enough to receive country wide approval for Paralegals to practice freely providing legal assistance to all and sundry according to the law. This will be a step in the right direction considering that in the United Kingdom, Solicitors play the same roles as registered legal practitioners.
By: Charles Neshah
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Employment Contract Samples – Use The Internet And Library To Find Contract Samples!
November 26th, 2009
Employment contracts can always help your establishment if you already have one or if you plan on starting a new one, either big or small. No matter how big or small their establishment is, almost all industries make use of these contracts. The reason behind this is, these contracts benefit not only the employees who sign them but as well as the company. Chances of the company being sued by the present or former workers can be reduced by using a well defined employment contract. The statistics in these papers make the drafting as well as the signing of the papers by the employees worthwhile. Not many people know that a lawyer is not necessarily needed to draft these contract papers. This can actually be done on your own without spending a very large amount of money as the lawyer’s fee. The contract papers that already exist can give you few ideas and examples as to how to draft a new employee contract paper. This is a very simple and easy process, all you have to do is read and collect all the necessary needed information from the various example contracts to draft one on your own.
The internet and the library are the two best ways to find the contract examples for free. Although both these places can give you information for free, both of them have their own ups and downs. In case of the library, the book has to be returned before a specific due date. And so be sure to collect all the information needed before the dead line. And if you happen to find a book that you may want to keep for further reference, you can always purchase it later at the book store. And when it comes to the internet it has a slight upper hand as you can always keep any information that you find provided you’re savvy around the computer. The only problem is, the legitimacy of the information given on the net cannot always be trusted. Not many websites provide the expert advice which they actually claim to give. Always ensure that the website which provides information has real lawyers to lay down the contract examples given. But when it comes to books one does not have to worry about these kind of problems. And at the same time don’t be too choosy when it comes to keeping things for free.
By: Abhishek Agarwal
