Across |
1. | Training in the law that a person receives after completing his or her formal legal training |
3. | The hourly rate that a law office actually collects from the billable hours submitted by an attorney or paralegal. |
6. | A paralegal who is an employee of an attorney |
8. | The process of forceing one party to pay anothers attorney fees and costs in litigations. |
9. | A fee that is paid only if the case is successfully resolved by litigation or settlement. |
12. | A program that manages computer mailing lists automatically, including the receipt and distribution of messages from and to members of the list. |
14. | A case applying a special statute that gives a judge authority to order the losing party to pay the winning partys attorney and paralegal fees |
15. | A fee that an attorney can collect for the nonclerical work of his or her paralegal on a client case. |
17. | One who provides paralegal services for an attorney who represents clients in transactions such as entering contracts, incorporating a business, cosing a real estate sale, or planning an estate. |
18. | One who operates his or her own business and contracts to do work for others who do not control many of the administrative details of how the work is performed. |
20. | Existing or occurring in the same period of time |
22. | An attorneys employee who is in law school studying to become an attorney or who has graduated from law school and is waiting to pass the bar examination. |
23. | The winning party cannot recover attorney fees and costs of litigation from the losing party unless a statute authorizes such payment, a contract between the parties provides for such payment or the court finds that the losing party acted in bad faith in the litigation. |