"paralegal" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who assists a lawyer in legal matters, typically in research or administrative tasks. Example sentence: His sister works as a paralegal in a law firm in the city.
The scheme, which is part of the UN's improving the rule of law and access to justice programme, also involves monitoring and documenting the courts to help bed down procedures, and paralegal training for local community organisations to enable them to make interventions if due process is not being observed.
A local human rights NGO, the Centre for Human Rights, Education, Advice and Assistance (Chreaa), based in the commercial capital, Blantyre has been working since 2002 to protect the rights of marginalised prisoners subject to long pre-trial detention, the majority of whom will not have access to legal representation, through its paralegal advisory service.
She explained that she was once a paralegal assistant in a large law firm and earned $50,000 a year.
And third, there are now many employment schemes that take account of religious restrictions, such as women-only software companies and paralegal firms.As haredi society has been forced into contact with modernity it has become more worldly and open, while often finding ingenious ways to impose its own limits.
A nurse, a computer technologist or a paralegal can take 15 years out to look after her children and then return to full-time work.
Their experts are trained to weed out excesses, such as billing for paralegal staff rather than cheaper clerks for menial tasks.There are signs of pushback.
As tributes poured in for the young family, a Facebook page in Hicks' name showed that he read paralegal studies at Durham Technical Community College and described himself as a supporter of "Atheists for Equality".
Perez grew up in Dallas, the son of a lawyer and a paralegal; he majored in Gender and Sexuality Studies and has worked as a freelance writer and as a manager of philanthropic projects.
I was accompanied by one of the Sheikh's followers, who was acting as my interpreter and as a paralegal for the Sheikh, whose conspiracy trial would begin in Manhattan on January 9th.
Writer visits Peasley at his new offices where he works as a consultant and paralegal.
First came the after-work shift: Sangita, a paralegal whose parents are from Calcutta, said that she was there because "my mom's been pushing it.
