A Strong Paralegal LDA Career vs Becoming an Attorney A Quick
Start Guide with a few interesting Twists
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Paralegal, Lesser Financial Investment, Great and
Growing Potential
Going to Law School is a large financial investment
and in many cases a larger time consuming burden. Here's
the little known secret, Paralegals can sometimes earn
more money that some attorneys. Of course you would have
to be serious about your new PL career in doing so, but
yes, it can be done and is done.
One
consideration many overlook is that as a Paralegal your
Value to a law firm is not based on your Title. It's
based on the unique skills you can provide and that
alone can be just one reason there are some Paralegals
making more than some attorneys. The moral to that story
is the type of work a Paralegal, or especially a
Paralegal/LDA, learns to perform, in essence - GET
EXPERIENCE.
An overlooked process in
your career building
- Perfect your
communication skills - Pursue relevant and useful
support tools, such as taking LFC's LDA Course -
Learn new and unique software programs useful to the
field - Beef up your Resume by adding a little
Theatrical design
Are You Analyzing Your Qualifications?
You may find you're far more qualified than
you believe that you are. Herein lies your bonus, once
you analyze your life experience and highlight those
areas you excel in or even have had experience in,
formulate your resume accordingly. As if you act like
you’re more qualified than would appear, then those you
are networking or seeking employment with will see that
too, just be sure you can back most of it up.
Work Experience vs Skills
and Talents
Too many focus on their work
experience to draft their resumes. But when you're in
your 20's the skills and talents that you have developed
make up more of what you are than your work experience.
Here is where you should focus and analyze or assess
your skills and qualification summary that will give you
the appearance of a strong potential value that you have
to give to a firm.
I'm sure that you've
researched how to draft a resume. What you're going to
discover here is a new way to go about it. It’s
basically a Resume inside of a Resume. Some of this
would include:
- Various elements of your
Paralegal Training - Client Relations - Computer
Use and Knowledge - Software expertise of a variety
of different types - Self-Employment
LAVC's PL and LDA
Courses Offer: Easy 2-month payment plan -
and - Everyone Qualifies
Fast Career Entry vs Long
and Burdensome
There are a lot of statistics
available showing a variety of different stats and
facts, but one that may be a real inspiration for those
trying to decide on the Paralegal career vs becoming an
attorney is striking. Over the last 20 years tuition for
law schools has grown at a rate 4.5 times faster than
the already escalating fees at 4-year schools. In 2010,
law students graduating with debt owed an average of
close to $100,000, with many owing well into the six-digits. Think
about that, it means you would have to earn $100,000
just to break even (that doesn't even take in account
normal living and
other expenses).
LFC's highly acclaimed and
recognized Paralegal and LDA courses are not just cost
affordable, but FAST. You can graduate in ONLY 7 months.
On top of that you could have 2 valued Certificates,
your PL (Paralegal) and you’re LDA (Legal Document
Assistant).
So you could actually be starting
your own LDA Preparation business and earing big money
while the others seeking to become lawyers are spending
allot more time and acquiring a huge burdensome debt in
the process.
THORNHILL is proud to provide you this great
career boost at a low cost, with payment plans and fast
completion.
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Resume Enhancement Gain Attention 'Thru'
Entertaining
The main problem with so many
applicants putting together their Resume is that they
leave out complexities, colorful examples of practical
situations and diversity in applicable useful tools.
A Resume or Theatrical Synopsis Effect
Don’t give them just the obvious. Sell yourself
through a little entertainment.
Take this concept
and use it wisely. Internet websites, not unlike TV and
Print ads, have about 4-8 seconds to grab someone's
attention before they're onto another site, another
station or another media, etc. Use that same theory in
your Resume.
Make your Opening interesting and
strong. It can be a way of stating your skill sets right
up front. List a few short situations you've been
involved in that give them a favorable transition
'before' you list your experience.
In short,
think of possibly drafting or designing your resume in a
custom biographical format with some added relevant
theatrics. Tell your story. Don't be afraid to highlight
tough tasks and interesting challenges you dealt with
and how you resolved them. Problem solving can be a very
good asset, especially if it was done in an
interestingly or unique manner.
PL's have Options
Remember, there are
other options and benefits in becoming a PL *
Freelance Paralegal independent contractors to Law Firms
and small attorney offices * Self Employed as
Document preparation assistants (LDA) * Working for
small and medium sized businesses as a legal secretary
position whereas you would do normal executive secretary
work, but serve as a bonus to the company as having
filing and document preparation abilities that they
would normally have pay higher rates to have an attorney
draft. Here are some
interesting facts to help motivate you to pursue your PL
career
Paralegals enjoy: *
Increasingly Higher Pay Scales * Easy Entry into the
Legal Field * Expanding Quality Employment
Opportunities * Higher Prestige Acknowledgements *
Direct Client Contacts, a Bonus * Expansive and
Encroaching Legal Services Structure to build on.
Additional Career
boosters
Study this and you'll have an
edge, the THORNHILL Educational Systems Edge.
But, not to leave you guessing and to support what
you've just read, in closing here is something that
might get your attention.
We've stated for you a
variety of BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) figures
before in other articles on the LegalFieldCareers.com
site, one of which estimates that the average salary
across the country for paralegals is $48, 790. But just
to show you the potential, and there are others, here
are 10 Examples of High Paying Paralegal jobs that we
haven't mentioned before: Source: Forbes and
GlassDoor.com
#10 – Paralegal at
Perkins - average salary: $64,714
# 9 – Flint Paralegal -
average pay: $64,830
#
8 – Washington DC Paralegal - median annual wage:
$64,830
#
7 – San Jose Paralegal - median annual wage of $69,000
#
6 – San Francisco Paralegal - average paralegal salary:
$70,410
#
5 – Paralegal with DLA Piper - one of the largest law
firms in the world: Average salary: $70,483
#
4 – Paralegal with Microsoft - Average paralegal salary:
$72,000 a year
#
3 – Paralegal at Altria - Average salary: $88,418
#
2 – Case Manager at Fish & Richardson - Average salary:
$92,291 for being a paralegal as a case manager
#
1 – Senior Paralegal at Allianz Global Investors -
Average salary for a senior paralegal: $95,367
Average Paralegal Salary of the Top 10: $75,234
approx. $30,000 more than the national average.
By taking the THORNHILL PL and LDA courses at LAVC,
doing much of what you just discovered could land a
great job at a law firm and, possibly, into business for
yourself. You could make that and even more and without
having a Law School Graduate debt to pay off.
So what are YOU waiting for?
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(Legal Document Assistant) course. They're short,
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