How to find a good paralegal in the Phoenix area?
October 23, 2013 5:51 AM Subscribe
Trying to find a good paralegal in Phoenix, AZ but not sure where to go. I checked Angie's list but there is only one service rated and it's not good. What other sources can I check to get ratings/recommendations?
Are you looking to hire this person as an employee or are you looking for some kind of freelance paralegal (I don't know that this exists)? Maybe there's another term for the type of work you're looking to have done? What service do you want this person to perform?
posted by melissasaurus at 6:35 AM on October 23, 2013
posted by melissasaurus at 6:35 AM on October 23, 2013
You could check with with the Arizona Paralegal Association or the Maricopa County Association of Paralegals. As melissasaurus says, this is going to depend a lot on what you are trying to achieve.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:12 AM on October 23, 2013
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:12 AM on October 23, 2013
Paralegals don't generally do work for hire. They're employed by law firms and businesses to do the significant amount of mindlessly tedious work that goes into legal work, e.g., putting the numbers from five hundred pages of medical bills into a usable spreadsheet, or preparing, organizing, and tabulating the eighty-two exhibits cited in a legal brief. The kind of people who need these sorts of services tend to need them all the time, so it makes sense to just hire someone.
If you're looking for an employee, contact one of the professional groups. If you're not. . . why are you looking for a paralegal?
posted by valkyryn at 7:42 AM on October 23, 2013
If you're looking for an employee, contact one of the professional groups. If you're not. . . why are you looking for a paralegal?
posted by valkyryn at 7:42 AM on October 23, 2013
Arizona is one of two states (the other being California) where people trained to be paralegals can be licensed to prepare legal documents directly for the public. If that is what you are looking for, you want to search for legal document preparers instead of paralegals. This site has a membership directory.
If you are a lawyer looking to hire a freelancer, I think many legal document preparers also do that, though they might not be technically the same business. (I am in California--here they are required to be legally distinct.)
posted by rai at 9:38 AM on October 23, 2013
If you are a lawyer looking to hire a freelancer, I think many legal document preparers also do that, though they might not be technically the same business. (I am in California--here they are required to be legally distinct.)
posted by rai at 9:38 AM on October 23, 2013
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