I’ve been working as a legal assistant for a year now, but I do have a paralegal certificate. After getting my paralegal cert, I was turned down for paralegal positions and told to get legal asst. experience first. Now that I have some legal asst. experience, I can’t find open positions for entry level paralegals since I have no experience working as a paralegal.

My current firm also never ever promotes legal assistants to paralegal.

Any advice as to how I might find work as a paralegal?

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I have a similar experience. I have been a legal assistant for over 30 years. I received my paralegal certificate in 2019. No one wants to hire me for a paralegal position, but I get lots of interest from firms wanting to hire me as a legal assistant.

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