Here you will find links to a variety of professional associations that may be of interest to legal assistants.  Some are designed specifically for legal assistants; others are not.  For example, legal assistants often must handle law office management duties, so I've included a link to a Web site for law office managers.  Other links are to legal directories where you can navigate to find useful information.  Happy surfing!

Legal Directories & Portals

These are places to go looking for everything law-related on the Internet.  If you are doing legal research, looking for process servers, investigators, or court reporters, want to find a job, or you just want to network, check these sites out.

Findlaw -- a huge site with all kinds of stuff related to the law, including links to information about legal assisting, legal assistant education, and much more.

Heiros Gamos -- a comprehensive legal directory with a goofy name.  There are lots of useful resources for legal assistants, like information about process servers, expert witnesses, private investigators, and court reporters.

Jurist -- a site that bills itself as being for law professors, but it has tons of information about the law, and it's a great place to visit.  If you're doing legal research on the Internet, you will want to visit this site.

Megalaw -- another general legal site where you can link to information that legal assistants need, like a site about court reporters, and another about process servers.

Washburn Law School Portal -- the site looks quite plain, but it is a terrific resource for just about anything related to the law.

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Legal Assistant & Legal Assistant Education Associations

American Association for Paralegal Education -- this is a voluntary national association of paralegal educators.

National Association of Legal Assistants -- NALA is one of the two largest national legal assistants' associations.

National Federation of Paralegal Associations -- NFPA is the other big national legal assistants' association.

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Other Sites

Law Practice Management Page -- a site with articles about running a law office.

Lawyers Weekly -- an electronic version of a national legal news journal.  Lawyers Weekly also publishes state-specific news journals for Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Vermont.

Legal Marketing Association -- a site with information about law firm marketing, client development and client relations, and practice development.

Association of Legal Administrators -- ALA is a voluntary association of law firm managers and others who handle the day-to-day operations of law firms.

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