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Margaret Lucas Agius - Certified Paralegal
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Education
University of Detroit Mercy - College of Liberal Arts and Education - Communication Studies
The communications studies curriculum develops student understanding of functions and effects of multiple communication media through exposure to ethics, theory, and research. Media technology skills are learned in the context of creation and critical evaluation of mediated messages.

Madonna University - College of Social Sciences - Paralegal Studies
Welcome to the Paralegal Studies Program at Madonna University. The program was the first in Wayne County to be approved by the American Bar Association and has enjoyed over ten years of continuous approval. The program offers an Associate and Bachelor degree plus post-baccalaureate and post-BSN certificates.


Employers
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
Miller Canfield traces its history to 1852 when Sidney Davy Miller (1830-1904) opened a practice on Detroit's Jefferson Avenue. Today Miller Canfield has the most lawyers in Michigan and is one of the nation's leading firms in its specialty areas. We have grown to a legal staff of nearly 400 attorneys and legal assistants.

State of Michigan Attorney Discipline Board
This is the website of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board, the adjudicative arm of the Michigan Supreme Court for discharge of its exclusive constitutional responsibility to supervise and discipline Michigan attorneys.


Professional Certification
CLA/CP Examination Fact Sheet
The CLA/CP program is designed to provide professional recognition to those who achieve significant competence in the paralegal career field. Established in 1975, the CLA examination program consists of successful completion of a two-day examination. Thereafter, evidence of continuing legal education must be submitted periodically in order to maintain certification.


Professional Organizations
National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc.
The National Association of Legal Assistants is the leading professional association for legal assistants and paralegals, providing continuing education and professional development programs. Incorporated in 1975, NALA is an integral part of the legal community, working to improve the quality and effectiveness of the delivery of legal services. The National Association of Legal Assistants is composed of over 18,000 paralegals, through individual members and through its 90 state and local affiliated associations.

Washtenaw County Bar Association
110 North Fourth Avenue, Suite 100, P.O. Box 8645, Ann Arbor, MI 48107

Paralegal/Legal Assistants Section of the State Bar of Michigan
The Paralegal/Legal Assistants Section of the State Bar of Michigan provides education, information and analysis about issues of concern through meetings, seminars, this site, public service programs, and publication of a newsletter. Membership in the Section is open to qualified legal assistants and to all members of the State Bar of Michigan. Statements made on behalf of the Section do not necessarily reflect the views of the State Bar of Michigan.


Publication Credits
Michigan Paralegal Newsletter

"Automotive Product Liability," Facts & Findings (August 2003)

Michigan Legal Assistant Newsletter

“Not Just for Lawyers,” Michigan Bar Journal (March 2001)


Software Skills
Sage Carpe Diem Electronic Time Sheet - Time Billing Software
Sage Carpe Diem Electronic Time Sheet is a service-oriented time tracking and expense tracking system for the corporate enterprise. It is ideal for professional service businesses, allowing users to select from validated lists of clients and projects, and then capture their time against these tasks as they work.

CaseMap Case Analysis Software
CaseMap — One-Stop Shopping For Critical Case Knowledge
CaseMap makes it easy to organize, evaluate, and explore the facts, the cast of characters, and the issues in a case. CaseMap is designed for use on all types of cases and by all types of litigators and investigators.

CaseMap is easy to learn and use. It features a consistent design, ease-of-use features such as live spell checking, and a prebuilt example case that make mastering CaseMap a snap.

IBM Lotus Notes
IBM Lotus® Notes®, the premier integrated client option for IBM Lotus Domino® server, delivers e-mail, calendar and scheduling capabilities, integrated instant messaging, personal information management (PIM) tools, discussion forums, teamrooms and reference databases with basic workflow – along with a powerful desktop platform for collaborative applications.

Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office System includes programs, servers, services, and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems.

LexisNexis Paralegal Certificate of Mastery
Improve your LexisNexis® research skills! Take advantage of our FREE training programs -- Paralegal Certificate of Mastery and Advanced Cite Checking -- designed specifically for paralegals to greatly increase proficiency using the LexisNexis services! And they're absolutely FREE and available only to our LexisNexis customers! If you are a student, click here for information on our Paralegal School Programs. If you would like to become a LexisNexis customer or get more information on LexisNexis services, click here. The pre-requisite for either of the training programs is Basic Lexis training.

LexisNexis Interface Software's InterAction
LexisNexis Interface Software's InterAction is a flexible and uniquely designed CRM platform that delivers Relationship Intelligence throughout your firm or organization, quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Relationship Intelligence is a firm-wide asset that reveals the complex connections between people, companies, relationships, experience and expertise, empowering professionals to uncover, extend and leverage their relationship networks, transforming who and what they know into new revenue opportunities. And because InterAction is easily accessed anytime, anywhere via an Internet browser or a Windows client, professionals can view and manage information however they choose — through knowledge management platforms, corporate portals, intranets, extranets, and wireless devices — while retaining control over their personal information and relationships.

Westlaw
Westlaw is West's online legal research service. It provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.

LawManager
Developed to meet the needs of the in-house legal department, LawManager is a flexible yet comprehensive information management system that includes all of the functionality needed to meet the rigorous demands of today’s corporate and government agency business environments.

Summation
Summation iBlaze® - The top-of-the-line of the Summation Blaze® LG product family. All of Summation's classic integrated transcript and document management core functionality, plus full-text imaging/PDF support, OCRing on the fly, electronic evidence production, tracking, and archiving, CopyCase and replication, remote document collections, Briefcasing, and more.

Recommind MindServer™ Legal Enterprise Search
MindServer Legal Enterprise Search automatically indexes text from multiple sources, then generates concept models that identify relationships between words and concepts, enabling relevant search results based on ideas, not specific words. As documents change or are added, MindServer incrementally indexes and identifies new concepts, providing real-time access to dynamic information.

EED Discovery Partner® Hosted Review Services
Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. ("EED®") designed Discovery Partner® to promote an accelerated, cost-effective review process, whether reviewing native files, images, or a combination of file types. Discovery Partner was the first solution for hosted native document review and remains at the forefront of native review solutions.

iConect Litigation Software
Our premier software, iCONECTnxt, enables firms to search, organize, and review electronic and document discovery information — including email, native files, and images — from anywhere in the world for easy collaboration with outside counsel, branch offices, and consultants. LAN and Web solutions available.

Hummingbird DOCS Open
Hummingbird DOCS Open® is a powerful document management solution that enables organizations to effectively and efficiently manage the entire information chain. It allows users to control, organize, access, and share vital corporate information quickly, easily, and accurately. Word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, images, e-mail messages, and any other type of file that needs to be saved, secured, and archived can be managed within the DOCS Open® document management environment.

Adobe Acrobat
The Adobe® Acrobat® family of products provides the power to deliver documents that give business, creative, and technical professionals an intelligent way to get the job done. Create and exchange documents, collect and compare comments, and tailor the security of a file in order to distribute reliable and polished Adobe PDF documents.

Citrix ICA Client
Each Citrix product line — Presentation Server, Access Gateway, Password Manager, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist and GoToMyPC — is designed to solve a particular access challenge as a standalone solution. The product lines are also designed to work with each other, and are offered as packages — the Citrix Access Suite™, for example — to solve larger access challenges for customers. Used together, Citrix products become loosely coupled components of an access platform. Customers can buy part or all of the Citrix access platform, and be assured that as they continue to add new Citrix products, to extend access to more people in more situations, the component products will all work together.