Parties, Roles, and Litigation Teams
Support Roles
Paralegals draft documents, manage discovery, organize records, prepare deposition and trial materials, and conduct research. Work must be supervised by an attorney and cannot include legal advice or court appearance.
Paralegal time is billable in most arrangements.
Alternative Names:
Legal Assistant, Paralegal Professional
Why it Matters?
Billing guidelines specify which tasks may be performed by paralegals and frequently require that certain work be delegated to them rather than performed by attorneys, which makes appropriate delegation a compliance issue as well as an efficiency one. Clerical work billed as paralegal time is a recurring write-down category, since guidelines exclude administrative tasks regardless of who performed them.
Frequently Confused with
Frequently asked questions
Do guidelines require paralegal delegation?
What is the recurring write-down?
