By Mioara
a Tiny Perspective
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” Ralph W. Emerson

First of all, I’m not a lawyer, I’m just a simple former secretary with few law firms.
What is this page? A virtual voice I choose to speak about law firms’ tiny matters, as huge matters should be dealt by lawyers.
I haven’t managed to (re)find a firm that would train me enough to turn secretarial job into viable career path of legal secretary or paralegal, as I really liked this type of job, challenging or not challenging it was my professional option. So, instead of being law job unemployed why not be funemployed on blogging.
This is not about strategies to financially and professionally survive these tighter times, tips on professional development and practice management, practical law guides, and so on; you may find this on … what will follow here as resources links (abnet.org, IPMA, asklizryan/group, estrinreport.com, legalpractice, etc); this is about people, fun, honesty (even on billing), lawyers’ networking, facts’ history, books, holidays and friends. Nevertheless, it will be about lessons I learned while assisting lawyers and law firm managers. I dare to profile my bosses and other people who came on the path from my own perspective, tiny, but personally.
I shall try to avoid stodgy boilerplate phrases, the sort of corporate-speak that litters the message, and use human language. I will disclose drafts on contracts, reports, summaries, wordings, all types of documents and contents that I have succeeded in gathering without affecting copyrights, confidentiality and other rights.
First lesson: Sometimes a tiny perspective is more appropriate than a wider perspective. When things are not going well, persistence is merely a failure to consider all your options, just simply stop and reverse course.