Rules and guidelines covering ethical issues involving paralegals.

Unwanted and offensive sexual advances, contact, comments, or other interaction.

Using or attempting to use legal skills to help resolve a specific person’s legal problem.

The chief attorney in a corporate law department.

A letter sent to prospective clients that explicitly states that the law office will not be representing them.

Unwanted and offensive sexual advances, contact, comments, or other interaction.

Using or attempting to use legal skills to help resolve a specific person’s legal problem by someone without a license to practice law.

Definition:
(1) The power of a court to resolve a legal dispute. (2) A geographic area over which a particular court, legislature, or administrative agency has authority. The geographic area can be the entire country, a state, a group of states, a county, a city, etc. (3) The power or authority that a person, government, or other entity can exercise.

A method or procedure for resolving a legal dispute without litigating the dispute in a court or administrative agency.

The interaction among coworkers who do not always have the same goals, powers, expectations, abilities, or timetables for performing the work of the office.

(on one’s own behalf) Appearing for or representing oneself.

Poor; without means to afford something such as a private attorney or filing fees.

(1) The division or splitting of a single client’s fee between two or more attorneys who are not in the same firm. (2) The division or splitting of a fee between an attorney and a nonattorney.

The federal agency that investigates employment discrimination that might violate federal law.

A nonattorney who is authorized to charge fees for preparing (without attorney supervision) a bankruptcy petition or any other bankruptcy document that a self-represented debtor will file in a federal court.

A program that helps fund legal services for the poor with funds that attorneys are required to turn over from interest earned in client trust accounts containing client funds.

Screening that prevents a tainted worker (attorney, paralegal, or other nonattorney) from having any contact with the case of a particular client in the office because the tainted worker has created a conflict of interest between that client and someone else.

An analysis of the extent to which a person or program has met designated objectives.

An inmate, usually a self-taught nonattorney, who has a limited right to provide other inmates with legal services if the institution does not provide adequate alternatives to such services.

Definition:
Concerning or involving legal services that are provided for the public good (pro bono publico, shortened to pro bono) without fee or compensation. Sometimes also applied to services given at a reduced rate.