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I just went from $74k to an offer of $91k plus cushy benefits from a very nice firm.
Here's what I suggest you do:
Pay a seasoned resume writer to go through your resume and bring you up to speed. There were a lot of things that changed since I had last looked for a job 8 years ago like how no one puts their address at the top, it's just your city, email, phone no. and LinkedIn profile.
Get a LinkedIn profile setup and put as much of your energy into it as you can, writing it. If you need ideas, look at the bios for the attorneys you support to see what they specialize in as a practice area, and then steal the verbiage and apply it to your role. What they do is what you do. This will make you stand out from the standard paralegals that just use descriptives in their resume and cover letter
P1 not necessarily, depends on the practice area and region.
Start with having it be very well formatted, concise, and convey skills and experience, with 100% perfect grammar/spelling. If you have an attorney or other pro writer-type who can proof it for you, highly recommend.
Mere submission of the application.