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Internet Quote: Do Paralegals Mind Being Called Paramedics?

By Lynne DeVenny

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Or "Oh, No, You Didn't Just Say That!"

Like me, Peter Hermann, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, would love to get picked for jury duty, just once. But the odds are stacked against paralegals and journalists. Hermann shares his experience about not getting picked in a great article, "Chance to hear jury at work evaporates".

Hermann's number even got skipped over when people were called to the box, possibly because he's "written extensively over the years about law enforcement, the city's unrelenting crime problem and how police fight the scourge of drugs." But a paralegal might have slipped through on the basis of a court typo:

There were, of course, errors that lightened the mood as people stood to state their names and occupations: The court file mistakenly listed a paralegal (who works in a federal prosecutor's office, no less) as a paramedic, a heavy equipment operator as a conservationist.

It's an easy mistake to make, right?

How many of my paralegal readers have had the "inside-the-jury-box perspective"?

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on November 22, 2009 (boomark / email).