Training and Education to Increase Job Skills and Versatility
Specialized Job Skills Training
In order to meet the demand for specific paralegal and legal secretary skills, Home Front Legal Services LLC periodically offers training for job candidates and our employees. We also offer our specialized staff training for individuals and law firms. If you find a good candidate without experience in your practice area or don't have time to train new staff, let us do it for you.
Each course is a one day, 6 hour seminar. It is designed to prepare a legal secretary or paralegal to handle a basic case in each practice area. The course documents were written by experienced paralegals and attorneys. The materials contain "real life" examples and very specific information about how to handle the "nuts and bolts" of the daily work of legal secretaries and paralegals in the chosen practice area. The course can even be tailored to the procedures used in your firm, if you sign up two or more students. In addition, we conduct each seminar in a small group of no more than four to five students which provides the one on one communication necessary to insure the practices and procedures taught can be carried out independently by your staff. We explain the law in the practice area, use real life examples, encourage dialog with the students and provide reference materials for each student.
Our next Personal Injury Boot Camp session will be on March 16, 2012.
- Personal Injury Staff Boot Camp: Syllabus and Course Registration Form
- Medical Malpractice Staff Boot Camp: Syllabus and Course Registration Form
- Employment Law Staff Boot Camp: Syllabus and Course Registration Form
Contact Amy DeBrota for more information.
Training Makes the Difference In History
During World War II, nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but in transportation, agricultural, and office work of every variety. Women joined the federal government in massive numbers during World War II. Nearly a million "government girls" were recruited for war work. In addition, women volunteers aided the war effort by planting victory gardens, canning produce, selling war bonds, donating blood, salvaging needed commodities and sending care packages. By the end of the First World War, twenty-four percent of workers in aviation plants, mainly located along the coasts of the United States were women, and yet this percentage was easily surpassed by the beginning of the Second World War. Training to help women adapt the skills they already had to new work and education to learn new skills made this possible.
In some cases, the skills women had acquired through their daily chores proved to be very useful in helping them acquire new skill sets towards the war effort. For example, the pop culture phenomenon of "Rosie the Riveter" made riveting one of the most known and common job for women at that time Experts speculate women were so successful at riveting because it so closely resembled sewing (assembling and seaming together a garment). However, riveting was only one of many jobs women learned and mastered as the aviation industry developed. Women helped design planes, build them on the production line and operated almost every conceivable type of machinery, from rivet guns to giant stamp presses. Some women chose more traditional "female" jobs such as sewing aircraft upholstery. And yet many others chose to run large hydraulic presses that cut metal parts, while others used cranes to move bulky plane parts from one end of the factory to the other. Women inspectors ensured that necessary adjustments were made before the planes were flown out to war, often by female pilots. Although at first, most Americans were reluctant to allow women into traditional male jobs, women proved that they could not only do the job but in some instances they did it better than their male counterparts. For example, women in general paid more attention to detail as the foreman of California Consolidated Aircraft once told the Saturday Evening Post, "Nothing gets by them unless it’s right." Source: Wikipedia
