Offered exclusively to attorneys, Virtual Paralegal Solutions allows attorneys virtual access to paralegal assistance on their own terms.
CIVIL LITIGATION AND TRIAL PREPARATION
- Draft and prepare pleadings, including complaints, answers, counter claims, interrogatories.
- Assist with trial preparation and discovery.
- Draft motions, trial briefs, Appellate and Supreme Court briefs, summations.
- Deposition summaries.
- Construction liens.
- General correspondence.
- File organization.
- Automatic Bates Program/Stamping and Preparation/Tracking of Bates Index.
- Transcription capabilities for micro-cassettes.
- Special projects (i.e. office/calendar management).
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- State and Federal Trademark/Service Mark searches and filings
- Business Entity Formation
- Domain name registrations
Supreme Court Recognition
In 1990, the New Jersey Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law issued Opinion No. 24 which held that legal assistants or paralegals that contract their services to attorneys are engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. This opinion was appealed. The Supreme Court issued its Opinion on May 14, 1992, and held:
"The evidence does not support a categorical ban on all independent paralegals practicing in New Jersey. Given the appropriate instructions and supervision, paralegals, whether as employees or independent contractors, are valuable and necessary members of an attorney's work force in the effective and efficient practice of law."
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