“The [paralegal] field [has] an overdose of terminology: ‘lay practitioner’, ‘sublegals and paralegals’, ‘legal paraprofessionals’, ‘legal executive’, ‘legal service assistant’, ‘lay advocate’, ‘legal nurse’, ‘legal technician’, ‘legal counselor’, ‘lay councilor’, ‘lay representative’, ‘lay assistant’, and so forth”(Fins 2). Regardless of what one labels the profession, paralegals are assistants to lawyers. When I was a freshman my class did a project on law and the legal system. I was a defense attorney. All of the work …showed first 75 words of 1735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1735 total…go through the pressure of working in a courtroom. In that way, one may be a better lawyer if that’s the route he chooses to go by having this extra experience with the legal system. Bibliography WORKS CITED Fins, Alice. Opportunities in Paralegal Careers. New York: VGM Career Horizons, 1990. Hopke, William E. ed. Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. 9th edition. Vol. 3. Chicago, 1993, pg. 676-679. Your Career as a Paralegal. Chicago: Institute for Research, 1997.