Paralegal Exam 1 fully solved & updated

NFPA promotes paralegals through what program - ANSWER-Cle (training after legal training) Can entry level paras be on the nfpa - ANSWER-No Who can be in the nfpa - ANSWER-People certified in pace or rp Nala - ANSWER-Certification. Exam for paralegals with no training Who are the ones who pass the nala called - ANSWER-Cp- certified paralegal or a cla- certified legal assistant What is a paralegal called when they meet the nala requirements - ANSWER-Acp- advanced certified paralegal Does nala or nepa require entry level certification - ANSWER-Nala Voluntary association of attorneys. It's a standing committee on paralegals thst recutes paralegals - ANSWER-Aba A para hi is an employee of an attorney - ANSWER-Traditional para A para who operates on his or her own buisness and contracts to do work for others who do not control many of the administrative details of how the work is preformed - ANSWER-Independent contractor Type of paralegal that provides assurance to attorneys whose clients are engaged in a large variety of transactions involved in leases, contracts, and estate planning - ANSWER-Transactional paralegal Type of paralegal who provides services for an attorney who represents clients in transactions for businesses or closing a real estate - ANSWER-Transactional paralegal Conduct by a person who does not have a license to practice law or other special authorization needed for that conduct - ANSWER-Upl Non clerical tasks that require legal expirence or training tasks that justify an award of paralegal fees - ANSWER-Substantive legal work Paralegal fee - ANSWER-Fee that attorneys collect for the non clerical work of his or her paralegal on a client case Overhead fees - ANSWER-Operating expenses of a buisness for which customers or clients charge a separate fee American rule - ANSWER-Winning party can not recover attorney fees from the losing party English rule - ANSWER-Losing team must pay the winners attorneys fee Fee shifting - ANSWER-Process of forcing one party to pay another's attorney fees and costs in litigation Fee shifting - ANSWER-Process of forcing one party to pay another's attorney fees and costs in litigation Statutory fee case - ANSWER-See applying a special statute that gives a judge authority to order the losing party to pay the winning parts attorney and paralegal fees Lodestar - ANSWER-Method of calculating an award of attorney fees An attorneys employee who is in law school studying to become an attorney or who has graduated from law school and is waiting to pass the bar exam - ANSWER-Law clerk Records that are prepared on events as the events are occurring or shortly thereafter - ANSWER-Contemporaneous Making profit from the income generating work of others - ANSWER-Leveraging A minimum number of hours exepected from a time timekeeper on client matters that can be charged to clients per period time - ANSWER-Billable hours quota A general guideline used by some law firms to identify by some law firms to identify budget exceptions from hiring paralegals - ANSWER-Rule of three Hourly rate that a law office actually collects from the billable hours submitted by an attorney or paralegal - ANSWER-Realization rate a law firm that generates the income from the fees of individual clients - ANSWER-private law firm a law firm that specializes in one area of the law - ANSWER-boutique law firm __% of paralegals work for law firms - ANSWER-75 nonmilitary government employment often obtained through merit and competitive exam - ANSWER-civil service the major civil service job classification for paralegals who work for the federal government and for some state government - ANSWER-paralegal specialist litiagation - ANSWER-process of taking legal action when someone pays in advance for future legal services - ANSWER-prepaid legal service an attorney from the government appointed by the court and paid by the government to represent a criminal case - ANSWER-public defender an attorney from a private practice is appointed by the court and to represent a criminal case - ANSWER-assigned counsel criminal cases that are brought by government attorneys are called __,__,and __ - ANSWER-prosecutors, district attorneys, and general attorneys self-employed independent contractors who sells their paralegal services to and works under the supervision of an attorney - ANSWER-freelace paralegals online freelancers - ANSWER-virtual assistants paying an outside company or service to preform tasks usually performed by one's own employees - ANSWER-outsourcing sells services to paralegal without attorney supervision - ANSWER-legal technician and independent paralegal when you own the business ans profits and assets - ANSWER-sole proprietorship liability that can be satisfied out of an individuals persona; business assets - ANSWER-personal liability restricted liability that can be satisfied out of business assets, not out of personal assets - ANSWER-limited liability an attorney who practices alone - ANSWER-sole practitioner a professorial who handles any kind of case - ANSWER-general practitioner a firm that practices in one area of law - ANSWER-boutique law firm who gives research and assistance to the judge and does other things - ANSWER-law clerk an attorney who brings fee-generating cases into the office due to their extensive contracts and reputation. this is how they attract business - ANSWER-rain maker a partners advance against profits or net income its an advance against profits (or net income) in some firms and an overhead expense in others - ANSWER-draw an employee of a partnership that might become promoted to partner. what are they called when they pass up this promotion - ANSWER-associate, super associate anyone hired form a different law firm is called __ - ANSWER-lateral hire a full time attorney who has no desire to become a full partner - ANSWER-staff attorney an attorney who is semiretired or has some other special status in the law firm - ANSWER-of counsel an attorney hired to work for a relatively short period time, usually on specific status in the law firm - ANSWER-contract attorney a person needs this if they want to preform services that require a professional license - ANSWER-pc professional corporation what is it called when the same income is taxed twice (corporation pays its taxes on its income and then shareholders pay individual taxes they receive from the corporation - ANSWER-double taxation a company or partnership whose owners are taxed like a partnership and have the limited liability of a corporation - ANSWER-limited liability entity a law office within a corporation containing salaried attorneys (called in house attorneys) who advise and represent the corporation - ANSWER-corporation legal department the chief attorney in a corporate law department - ANSWER-general counsel the partner of a law firm who has day-to-day responsibility for management of the firm - ANSWER-managing partner an individual, usually a non attorney, who has responsibility for the day-to-day administration of a law office - ANSWER-legal administor a paralegal who helps recruit, train, and supervise all paralegals in a law office - ANSWER-paralegal manager who mangaes the planning, marketing, and business functions as well as overhead operations of the law office - ANSWER-legal administration paying an outside company or service to preform tasks usually performed by ones own employees - ANSWER-putsourcing Nurse who provides services to attorneys - ANSWER-Legal nurse consultant Where can a Corp practitioner work at - ANSWER-Sandford, Walmart, Mikey Cyrus ect Private practice or gvt practice Court house, estate, adoption - ANSWER-Private Private practice or government practice Military, fbi, prostitution, defender - ANSWER-Gvt practice Difference between substantive and procedural work - ANSWER-S- emphasis on research... 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