Working for multiple attorneys can be a paralegals biggest challenge, learn how to take on this challenge and succeed even when you feel overwhelmed.
Successfully Working for Multiple Attorneys: Strategies for Legal Professionals is a dynamic, skills-focused webinar designed for paralegals, legal assistants, junior attorneys, and other legal support professionals navigating the demands of multi-attorney work. In today’s fast-paced legal environment, support staff must juggle diverse expectations, tight deadlines, and varied communication styles - all while maintaining efficiency and professionalism.This program delves into the real-world challenges of managing multiple attorneys and provides practical strategies to streamline workflow, prioritize tasks effectively, minimize stress, and foster clear communication across supervisory lines. Attendees will gain actionable tools, customizable templates, and proven communication techniques they can immediately implement to enhance productivity, safeguard their time, and maintain workplace balance.
Agenda
Time Management and Prioritization- Techniques for Balancing Workloads
- Setting Realistic Deadlines
- Handling Competing Priorities Effectively
- Best Practices for Clear and Proactive Communication With Multiple Attorneys
- Managing Different Work Styles and Expectations
- Tips for Maintaining an Organized Workflow
- Effective Usage of Legal Tech Tools
- Streamlining Processes to Maximize Productivity
- Strategies for Managing Conflicting Deadlines and Avoiding Burnout
- Maintaining Professionalism in High-Pressure Situations
- Ways to Establish Trust
- How to Maintain Credibility
- How to You Foster Collaborative Relationships With Attorneys and Legal Teams
Speaker(s)
Mariana Fradman, MBANew York Life Insurance Company
- Senior specialist with the Real Estate and Investments Group in the Office of the General Counsel at New York Life Insurance Company
- Adjunct professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, teaching ethics, business law, contracts, and real estate law at the ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate Program
- Over twenty years of experience specializing in commercial real estate transactions (acquisitions/sales, air/development rights transfers, joint ventures, mortgage lending (bond and affordable housing), energy projects, community development, not-for-profit and mixed use, strategic planning, workouts and 1031 exchanges, project, and space leasing); corporate and corporate housekeeping; M&A transactions and financial restructuring
- Presented at various continuing legal education seminars in person and online, including, but not limited to Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, New York Career Institute, Lorman Education Services, Paralegal Knowledge Institute, Clear Law Institute and at numerous CLE seminars presented by NYCPA; she was awarded the ‘Distinguished Faculty’ badge by Lorman Education Services, February 2014
- Mariana’s articles were published on The Paralegal Society Blog, The Paralegal Resource and the National Paralegal Reporter
- Vice president, CLE chairperson and mentor program chairperson at New York City Paralegal Association, Inc. (NYCPA); an ethics and professional responsibility coordinator for the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA), and is a member of NFPA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Rogue Paralegals
