Communication.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Client communication is key. Which topics did you find least valuable and why? Working with clients."
Overview of Personal Injury Law for Paralegals - On Demand
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Description
Description
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Personal injury law is a specialized area of litigation that seeks compensation for those injured by someone else’s negligence. As a paralegal in this field, you play an integral role in every case from intake and prelitigation to trial preparation and settlement. Every case—every client—will benefit from your expertise.
Join senior trial paralegal and author of The Indispensable Paralegal, Candess Zona-Mendola, for an overview of the personal injury paralegal career. This course will look at a typical personal injury case and offer insights into this important and ever-changing field. You will learn about the unique aspects of personal injury cases: understanding mild and traumatic injuries, case intake, medical records, demand letters, trial preparation, and more.
This program is useful for those new to the field of personal injury/tort law, as well as practicing paralegals who want to review and improve their craft. Attorneys may wish to provide this course to their paralegals to enhance their skills, or as an introduction to the field.
In this 60-minute course, Candess Zona-Mendola will cover:
- Knowing Your Docket
- Knowing the injuries, comorbidities, injury causes, potential outcomes, and ways to educate yourself
- Case Intake
- Getting to know your client and how the incident has changed their life and the lives of their surrounding family
- Prelitigation Investigation
- Police/incident reports, medical records, ongoing treatment, future medicals, photos/videos, witness statements, medical liens/subrogation, lost wages, and other damages
- Prelitigation Demands
- Letters of representation, writing demand letters, legal basis for claims, and confidential settlement talks
- Litigation
- Preparing your client and filing the case/initial pleadings
- The Discovery Period
- When to send discovery and subpoenas, standard questions versus special questions (interrogatories), preparing for depositions, and utilizing experts
- Summary Judgment
- Trial
- Preparing your client, preparing your team, and what to expect in court (federal vs. state)
- Settlement
- General understanding, releases, accounting, and closing the case without loose ends
Details
Details
On Demand Program: 97 minutes
Original Air Date: 03/23/2022
Accreditation
Accreditation
Accreditation is not being offered for this On Demand program
Overall rating: 4.580645 / 5 from 31 reviews.
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Summary topics
Review topics: ["information","skills","clients","seminar","paralegal","knowledge"].
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Know your client.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Be compassionate, know your docket, know your client, be as thorough as possible."
Injury process.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Personal injury process."
Informed consent.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Informed consent. Which topics did you find least valuable and why? None."
Client relationship.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Understanding the importance of developing an ongoing client relationship. The details of a Demand Letter and the value of including pictures etc. Which topics did you find least valuable and why? All are valuable to me as I am curious about entering the field. . . great overview for me."
Being a paralegal requires multi-faceted skills.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Being a successful paralegal requires multi-faceted skills including legal knowledge and humanitarian empathy. In addition, attention to details and curiosity is vital to the paralegal role."
Being a successful paralegal requires�
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Being a successful paralegal requires multi-faceted skills including legal knowledge and humanitarian empathy. In addition, attention to details and curiosity is vital to the paralegal role."
All
"What were your key takeaways from the program? All."
Process of trials.
"What were your key takeaways from the program? I learned a lot about the process of trials. Which topics did you find least valuable and why? None, everything helped."
Key takeaways are how
"What were your key takeaways from the program? Key takeaways are how important building good relationships with clients are and really taking the time to help them understand the process to the best of your ability. Another takeaway is a paralegals importance to the attorneys and the role that they play in a law office. Which topics did you find least valuable and why? I feel like it should have gone over more of what the discovery process will look like and the kind of wording/material that is apart of going through discovery with a client."
