Legal Assistants of Wyoming

PO Box 155
Casper, WY 82602

Email:
legalassistantsofwyoming@gmail.com

Upcoming events

LAW Fall Seminar

Fri, September 25, 2020 • Sheridan, WY

LAW Spring Seminar & Annual Meeting

Fri, April 23, 2021 • Casper, WY

President - Amanda Nelson, ACP

President Elect - Shannon Rezanina, ACP

Treasurer - Jayme Bjorklund, ACP

1st Vice President - Tammy Wuertley, ACP

2nd Vice President - Savannah Hernandez

Secretary - Brooke Brown, CP

NALA Liaison - Barbara Heisner, CP

Region 3 Director - Kapri Scoffield

Region 4 Director - Taylor Roybal

WECOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS!

President - Amanda Nelson, ACP

President Elect - Shannon Rezanina, ACP

Treasurer - Jayme Bjorklund, ACP

1st Vice President - Tammy Wuertley, ACP

2nd Vice President - Savannah Hernandez

Secretary - Brooke Brown, CP

NALA Liaison - Barbara Heisner, CP

Region 3 Director - Kapri Scoffield

Region 4 Director - Taylor Roybal

LAW AWARDS 2020 CONGRATULATIONS!
FUTURE CP ATTAINMENT AWARD
Stephanie Barth

MEMBER MAKING A DIFFERENCE AWARD
Annette Fredrickson

HENRY'S HAND-UP
An assistance fund established in honor of
HENRY CUARTAS
1964-2020
with our sincere condolences
and appreciation to
our friend, paralegal colleague
and longtime member
GINGER CUARTAS

Check out these fantastic paralegal education resources in Wyoming!

Casper College Paralegal Program

Laramie County Community College Paralegal Program

NATIONAL AFFILIATION

LAW is an affiliate member of The National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). For more information, visit the NALA website at www.nala.org.

PURPOSE

Legal Assistants of Wyoming (LAW) is a nonprofit organization established in October 1990 to promote continuing education, professionalism and networking to paralegals throughout Wyoming.

Read our June 2020
edition of the
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The American Bar Association recently changed its definition of a paralegal. The change eliminated the words "legal assistant" from the definition.

See the entire revised definition below.

WHAT IS A PARALEGAL?

"A [legal assistant or] paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible."

The words in red above were removed in Feburary 2020 from the definition of a paralegal by the American Bar Association's policy making body, the House of Delegates. The recommendation to remove the words "legal assistant or" was made by the ABA's Standing Committee on Paralegals.

Please visit our Resources page for more information.