Paralegals are charged with a variety of daily responsibilities including everything from monitoring calendar deadlines to ensuring the completion of court filings. Paralegals often serve as the point person when it comes to the technical requirements, or nuts and bolts, of filing and procedure. Attorneys rely upon paralegals for knowledge of changes in applicable rules within the court system. Of course, the applicable rules of a specific court can change at any time. And so, the new year also brings forth several amendments to many local, state and federal rules.
Court rules cover a wide variety of areas including content, time provided for response, signature requirements, number of copies to be filed, filing fees, etc. Being unfamiliar with the requirements of a particular court may result in rejected filings as well as missed deadlines. For example, what might start out as a “minor administrative oversight” such as failing to include a court cover sheet with a filing can result in the nightmare of a rejected filing. Errors such as rejected filings, however, are easily avoidable if paralegals take the time to become familiar with the up-to-date filing requirements of a specific county, state or district.
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