A 33-hour course, Estates, Wills & Trusts covers such topics as the use of various estate planning methods and devices, including wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, health care directives and beneficiary designations. The rules of intestate succession will be covered. Emphasis will be placed on planning tools and administration of estates.

The course is also designed to introduce the procedures and court proceedings required to manage probate and non-probate transfers in California. Students are required asked to prepare forms that are ordinarily required in formal California probate proceedings.

The course is taught Tuesday and Thursday evenings from October 6 through September 10th.

For more information, contact Mr. Printz at (858) 720-8250 or the University of San Diego Paralegal Program at (619) 260-4579.

The title of the seminar is Estate Administration Procedures: Why Each Step is Important. Along with Mr. Printz, faculty will include Janathan Allen of Allen Barron, sole practitioner Stuart Schechter, and Charles T. Scott of Kimball, Tirey & St. John.

The seminar will provide the following credits: California MCLE Paralegal; CFP for Financial Planners - 8.0; CLE for Attorneys- 6.75; CTEC for tax preparers- 8.0; IACET – 0.7; CPE for accountants/NASBA – 8.0; and PACE (CLU, CASL, ChFC) – 8.0

To register, call (800) 930-6182 or go to www.nbi-sems.com.

This is a basic level seminar, and provides fundamental estate administration topics for: attorneys; accountants; paralegals; trust officers; estate planners; and financial planners.

Sempra Energy seeks a Paralegal- Litigation and Corporate Compliance in San Diego. Under the direction of an attorney, conduct legal and factual research, collect, analyze and organize documents, prepare discovery responses, and maintain legal files. For additional details go to: www.sempra.com/careers and refer to Paralegal- Litigation and Corporate Compliance req# 11-363. Sempra Energy has a competitive compensation and benefits package, and is an EOE.

It simply makes sense: while money is flush, a business would prefer to spend its resources gathering and servicing clientele then throwing good money chasing after bad. On the other hand, where there is a lack of clients and business to go around, every piece of revenue must be protected, even if it means litigation to recoup losses.

Of course, there are niches which thrive on the reverse: When businesses falter or fail, there is certainly transactional work to be done selling of or dismantling those businesses. Nevertheless, I’m not surprised to have notices a gradual upswing in advertising for litigation paralegals.

Evidence for the increasing demand for litigation paralegals can be seen in the advertisements in the San Diego Daily Transcript, which I pulled off their website today and include for you below. I see this as the result of two factors: increasing litigation for litigation law firms; and the desire of firms to delegate more of their work to paralegals when possible, thus saving costs for the firm and increasing their margin on each piece of litigation.

Whatever the reason, it seems to be a boom time for paralegal jobs in litigation firms.

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LIT PARALEGAL (Downtown San Diego)

San Diego office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith is seeking a full time litigation paralegal with 2-3 years of experience. Must have database experience and an aptitude for learning and using case automation such as Concordance, Summation, CaseMap, Access, Relativity, in addition to Livenote, Excel, WordPerfect and/or Word. Responsibilities include subpoenaing records, organizing and summarizing records, communicating with experts and coordination of depositions, end user searching skills for records in databases, and creating trial binders. Paralegal certificate required. Email resume to obrien@lbbslaw.com
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LITIG PARALEGAL

Downtown litigation firm seeking paralegal with 5 plus years legal malpractice and/or complex litigation experience. Position requires a highly-organized, self-motivated individual with a certificate from an ABA accredited paralegal program. Mail, fax or email resume to Carol Madle, Wingert Grebing, 600 W. Broadway, 7th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101, 619-232-4665, cmadle@wingertlaw.com.
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PARALEGAL

Downtown San Diego civil litigation firm seeks paralegal with 5+ yrs exp in commercial litigation for expanding practice. Working knowledge of complex litigation, trial preparation, & cases involving large docs req’d. Proficiency in Word, Excel, Power Point, & working knowledge of various database software (Concordance, Access & Summation). Excellent skills & Bachelor’s degree or ABA-approved paralegal certificate req’d. Fax resume to Hiring Partner, Morris Polich & Purdy LLP @ 619-557-0460 or e-mail to recruitment-sd@mpplaw.com.

Secondly, the U.S. Department of Labor has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide training funds for spouses of active duty military personnel. These funds may cover over 80% of the tuition, and are available through the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account.

If you know of someone who may be interested, please respond to this message or contact Gretchen Veihl at 619-260-4579.

MCLE EVENT – 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

“Recent Tax Legislation and Estate Planning Practices,” presented by Daniel K. Printz, Esq.

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Location: San Diego County Library – North County Branch 325 S. Melrose Drive, Suite 300 Vista, CA 92081-6697

Cost: $15.00, SDPA Members; $20.00, Non-SDPA Members

DINNER IS INCLUDED IN THE COST OF THE EVENT.

THIS IS FOR 1.0 MCLE HOURS.

The Compliance Period for California Paralegals to earn 4.0 hours of general education and 4.0 hours of ethics is from 01/01/2009 – 12/31/2010. Start earning those hours early!!! For more information and to enroll, please go to www.sdparalegals.org