March 11, 2010 - Monthly Luncheon

The speaker for our March meeting will be Jim Moore. The topic will be "Protecting Your Attorney's Time"

	Location:	Poinsett Club 807 East Washington Street Downtown Greenville
	Date:	March 11th at 12:30 p.m.
	Cost:	Members - $15 Student Members - $13.50 Non-Members - $20.00
	RSVP:	Barbara Galerno at reservations@scupa.org by March 9 @ 12:00 p.m. Please note if you RSVP and are unable to attend, you are still responsible for your payment, as SCUPA must pay the Poinsett Club based upon RSVPs.

Please join us in networking and establishing fellowship among SCUPA members, and fellow members of the legal community. We look forward to seeing you there!

February 11, 2010 - Monthly Luncheon

The speaker for our February meeting was Anne Culcreath, Esq. The topic was "Legal Writing: Good Grammar Rules!"

January 14, 2010 - Monthly Luncheon

Our January meeting featured Judge Faulkner's swearing in of our new officers.

November 12, 2009 - Monthly Luncheon

Our speaker for our November meeting was Kathy Karr. Her topic was, "Do You See What I See? A Critique of the Records from a Medical Viewpoint." In addition, we also had our annual election for Board members.

October 8, 2009 - Monthly Luncheon

Our speaker for our October meeting was Amy C. Sutherland, an attorney doing contract work for DSS specializing in Termination of Parental Rights litigation. The topic was "Guardian Ad Litem - How Paralegals Can Serve in Private Custody and Visitation Litigation."

August 11, 2009 - Monthly Luncheon

Our speaker for our August meeting was Ross B. Plyler from Collins and Lacy, P.C. The topic was "Social Networking Sites & Their Use in Today's Litigation."

July 9, 2009 - Monthly Luncheon

Our speaker for our July meeting was Elizabeth Mann, Department Head of the ABA approved Paralegal Program at Greenville Technical College. The topic was a discussion on the Paralegal Task Force.

NALA Programs Heat Up

The impressive array of educational and professional development programs that NALA has cultivated in the past 35 years are entering the new year with renewed vigor and an intense focus on the needs of paralegals. Click here to view the entire NALA press release.

For information about paralegal certification and advance certification, visit http://nala.org/certification.aspx

For information about the 2010 NALA Convention, click here.

For information about the 2010 NALA Campus Spring Session, click here.


What's New at Greenville Tech
http://www.gvltec.edu/paralegal

Greenville Tech has a new instructor, Erika McJimpsey, who is teaching Law & Ethics for us as well as some Criminal Justice classes.  She is a former adjunct that we have wanted to hire full-time since we met her.  She is a very strong addition to our faculty.

Gary Ramaeker attended the national conference for the American Association for Paralegal Education in Portland in October and was very impressed with the quality of the people he met, the products of the vendors, and the conference itself.

Anne Culbreath is the lead instructor for our new Legal Writing class, and she reports that student work has improved noticeably this semester.  We are hoping that improvement will carry over into later courses and into their jobs.  Effective and accurate writing is absolutely critical to paralegal employment.