Registration for KPA Annual Seminar NOW OPEN

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

2011 Kansas Paralegal Association Annual Seminar

Friday, June 10, 2011

Johnson County Community College

12345 College Boulevard

Overland Park, KS

Be sure to Register Early and Take Advantage of Discounted Rates Through May 15, 2011!  Register online and choose from Bill Me or pay with your Debit/Credit Card payment options.  (When using the Bill Me option, please include a copy of your registration confirmation or confirmation number with your check.)

Don’t miss a great line up of speakers and topics, including:

(When Registering Online at www.ksparalegals.org, don’t forget to go to Page 2 to select the rest of your afternoon sessions!)

Luncheon Speaker: Steve Howe, Johnson County DA

4th Amendment: Search & Seizure Updates

Kimberly A. Rodebaugh

Ethics

Joe Colantuono

Health Reform In A Nutshell: What Employers Need To Know

Al Martin

Liability - Green Design and Construction

Chris Burger

Kansas District Court Record Search (Subscriber & Instant Access)

Shane Myers

Inventions and Patents

Marshal Honeyman

Appellate Practice

Chris Reedy

Death Penalty Defense

Melanie Freeman-Johnson

Medical Malpractice

Bryan Smith

Practical Tips to Effective Social Media Use as a Legal Professional

June Casalmir

Insurance Litigation

Zach Dyer

Military Divorces

Tim Keck

Washburn Paralegal Association April Meeting Notice

The Washburn Paralegal Association will hold the next meeting on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 12:30 in the Lincoln Room of the Washburn Student Union.  Program to be announced soon!
Plan to attend and see you at the meeting!

Adapting to change - New Technologies

Learning new technologies can be such a problem, so annoying, and so frustrating, and even stressful.  Learning and implementing new systems can be time consuming, and without a "help desk" we can sometimes be left out in the cold as to what to do.  It is important to know where your resources for help are when you are changing or upgrading new technologies.  Just who do you call?  Can yo rely on a network of others who have been through the upgrades and changes?  Do you have a help desk number you can call, with help from a real person? 

Know your resources for assistance and help.  The person in this video relied on the best of help for training and support while learning and implementing a new technology:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYCrm6PKmI&feature=related

Thomson Reuters Scholarship Application

The NFPA has announced the availability of the Thomson Reuters Scholarship.  Applications and accompanying materials must be postmarked by July 1, 2011.  The materials can be accessed at:  http://www.paralegals.org/associations/2270/files/2011content/2011_Thomson_Reuters_Scholarship_Application.pdf

WPA March 2011 Meeting Notice and Reminder

The Washburn Paralegal Association will meet Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. in the Thomas Room of the Washburn Student Union.  The speaker will be Tamara Mapes, Legal Secretary at Payless - Topeka, KS.  Tamara is also an instructor in Office Management and Editing and Grammar at Washburn University.  Refreshments will be served.  The meeting is open to all members of WPA, and those wishing to become a member of WPA.  See you there!

Sevice of Process over Facebook?

Some countries are accepting this!  Nothing from the U.S. yet, but look at the list: 

Service of Process via Facebook

The article takes a look at the reasons to and not to do this.  Take a look and see what you think. 

7 Tips to Get Retweeted

Retweeted?  Is that even a word?  Is that the correct way of saying it?  At any rate:  

Twitter is not going away.  It has already been said "the Tweet is mightier than the sword."  And, we are watching that statement become true fact, in history, right now and in our lives.  Tunisia, Egypt, and, well, your own law firm may even find that Twitter has the power you want and need.

Today's post is about Retweets:  Here are the 7 Tips for getting your Tweets to be Retweeted

The goal is to be informative, remarkable, humorous, opinionated, sharing, engaging.

Your firm can be all of these things, and it will attract. Show that over Twitter, know that by the Retweets.