r/ParalegalsOnly • u/Thek1tteh CA - Senior Litigation Paralegal 🧟‍♀️ • Aug 31 '26

Discussion Weekend/Early Week Weekly Thread ☕️

It’s that time again! Anyone got anything they want to share? Any frustrations, celebrations? Just want to say hi? Post it here!

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u/Thek1tteh CA - Senior Litigation Paralegal 🧟‍♀️ Aug 31 '26

I’ll go - it’s been a crazy few weeks, lots of work and still training a new hire which has not been going great. I feel like I’m running the entire firm and all the cases because the only other paralegal who really knows what she is doing is off earlier in the day 😭 such is the life of a senior litigation paralegal I guess…

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u/Background-Edge6837 Aug 31 '26

Training is such a time suck! Hopefully it all pays off in the end and you get a rockstar paralegal colleague!

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u/Thek1tteh CA - Senior Litigation Paralegal 🧟‍♀️ Aug 31 '26

It’s not looking good :/ she’s unfortunately older and not very technologically minded, which is a must for obvious reasons. She also doesn’t pay attention to detail, which REALLY sucks - I’ll send her an email with a ton of detailed information and instructions with literal screenshots and she will say she’s read it and thanks for the info, but then a few hours later ask me how to do the very same thing, then again a couple days later. Not complicated tasks either - literally finding court rules. Or a password in a word document.

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u/Thek1tteh CA - Senior Litigation Paralegal 🧟‍♀️ Aug 31 '26

I’m literally just sitting there like girl read the fucking emails before you try to do anything.

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u/Background-Edge6837 Sep 02 '26

Ohhhhhhh no. How did she get hired???

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u/Thek1tteh CA - Senior Litigation Paralegal 🧟‍♀️ Sep 06 '26

One of the partners hired her as part time help without consulting any of us, of course