Who Becomes
a Paralegal?
By
John Flanagan, Paralegal
Student
The
Philadelphia Association of
Paralegals Newsletter Forum
To
answer this question, "Who becomes a
paralegal?" is whether one desires…desires a good
job, associations and a proper place to
develop earned from education and
experiences. We generally find that a
person that perseveres in the good life
and has been influenced correctly find the thought
of building a gracious professional occupation to
make a
living reasonable. The honorable legal assistant
guy usually has ethical character imitatively leaned from good
sorts of people.
Men and women of
this nature select this profession because
they find a certain measurement
of harmony that
leads them onward to greater strengths of knowledge.
They wish to be able to prepare
an appropriate legal ecology at will; have a fuller sense of human
distinctions;
and ‘maintain a passionate handiwork for assisting law
processes.
The
prudent, time-honored art of assisting authority (attorney) is the
profession of a good, moral, honest, and dedicated experts—an
expert in knowing
the difference between the subject matter that is relevant and that
which is
heedless. It is a focused craft, fulfilling the precepts of ethics and
correctness,
bringing about a springboard to knowledge and wisdom. A trained
paralegal
learns to order the day’s business from a broad spectrum of
legal knowledge and
experience.
Paralegals
can properly deliberate the facts and convey them with relevancy.
Their professional education helps guide them through the steps needed
to
interpret justifications properly. This intellectual equity of mind is
a
growing process of developing mental capacities needed to understand
the
procedure involved in their work. The paralegal’s
responsibility is the keeping
of records and material facts in an organized manner, enabling the
delivery of
meaningful productions of clarity in both subject matter and authority.
When
this job is done well, the paralegal relieves confusion and empowers
the truth,
furthering cohesion and diminishing argument.
In
many regards, the paralegal is a virtuous person who validates a
correct
format for decision making and organization. Through his/her own
methods, he/she must take the
necessary precautions for a sober digest in the search for case
authority. The
duty becomes an investigation pondering the rules and histories as a
bell
ringer for sounding out the truth.
"The
paralegal will find it and the truth will set it free."
The fact that there is, honestly, no limit on personal growth within
the
profession is, on its own, a good reason for the choice.
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IF THE FROGS
HAD WINGS…TALE
By
John Flanagan©
500
word Lex Scholarship contest essay entry to AAfPE, February 16, 2007
Our defender
believes now that any chance of winning is unlikely.
Skeptical of receiving fairness of law and any alternatives to,
“the death
penalty”, (a failing experiment for good representation to
the
already
underclass targeted minority) greatly worried him. In
addition
such a
quest for
so many would bring long working hours, which could only bear a
negative impact
on his competent health, Brandies Brief (1908). This predicament
brought on the
question whether one public defender of good social composure could
withstand such
pressure. This overload of the cases commingled with the failure of a
good
support staff and partners shouldered for him the assumption of a few
procedural U.S
Constitution
violations.
One man he thought could only do so much, and with all the discoveries,
appeals,
motions,
lengthy litigations, preparing trials and creating a jury to speak the
truth
Mr. Doskey thought how could he ever
prevail in a
respectable and law abiding way.
Is it not, “In all
criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right . . . to have the Assistance of Counsel for his
defense.”
Is this not common lawyer knowledge since Gideon v. Wainwrights (1963)?
The
sixth amendment is a fundamental United States Constitutional
right to
all states to provide lawyers in criminal cases through the due process
clause
of the fourteenth amendment, so why not here with
his supervisors who
work him into a fright at the Orleans Parish Public Defenders
Office?
When in doubt,
don’t” and this Public Defender,
proudly did that. He threw in the towel using a
breach of the
resident requirement to resign. He argued that under those working
conditions
the office could not possibly succeed in giving the accused
their right to
counsel. This
attempt to ascend by resignation was rejected by the court
and backed by his public
defenders superiors. This Orleans Parish Defender was stuck in a
dilemma and
he did appealed to the State Supreme Court, which turned out
disastrous,
because they
voted unanimously no. It seemed the head Judges want the system to
work,
but they
do not want to intervene or dictate how the public defender’s
office should
behave; and, this they remanded as an
operational problem
not a judicial question.
In
conclusion, this sad tale of crisis
is an appeal to the
people for help to repair a broken public defender system. It fact, the
due
process; the equal protection; the fair legal representation; and the
right of
life should be free from errors in a State Sovereign process. One
suggestion,
perhaps, is to appeal this looming progress to the Federal Court legal
system
so that a skeptical agent of the State of Louisiana, handling
twenty-one
capitol cases can be granted relief from the burden of doubting
the American
legal system.