Encouraging the use of lower cost paralegals... whenever possible “encourages cost-effective delivery of legal services...”

Source:
Missouri v. Jenkins, 491 U.S. Ct. 2463,
2471, n. 10 (9).

  

Services Include:

• Attend initial conference with attorney and client
• Review and organize client files
• Draft correspondence and pleadings
• Draft demand to present for settlement
• Fact gathering & background interviews
• Draft discovery requests and responses
• Investigative services
• Site inspections and photography
• Prepare deposition summaries
• Prepare medical summaries and chronologies
• Proofreading and editing
• Conduct legal research and Internet research
• Locate and interview witnesses
• Conduct records search



• Document retrieval and filing in court
• Prepare trial notebooks
• Assist in preparing witnesses for trial
• Arrange in preparing witnesses for trial
• Attend and assist at trial
• Service of subpoenas and summonses
• Draft appellate briefs
• Set up and organize filing systems
• Manage diary/calendar systems and time sheets
• Streamline office expenditures & procedures
• Allocation of workloads
• Interview perspective employees
• Screen job applicants / background checks