Governor Crist proclaims May 3-9, 2009 as Paralegal Week: Click to view the proclamation.
Apply now to be a Florida Registered Paralegal!
Mail the application and $150.00 fee (check payable to the Florida Bar) to:
The Florida Bar
Florida Registered Paralegal
651 East Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2325
Please call or email the Florida Bar with any questions: (850)561-5840 or (800) 342-8060, extension 5840 or FRP@flabar.org or visit the Florida Bar website. Additionally, The Bar has a listing they are updating daily with the FRP's that have been approved.
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We established Southwest Florida Paralegal
Association, Inc. SWFPA in 1997 to
provide local paralegals with a network of legal resource
information, educational information, and information on
professional opportunities. Our primary goals are to uphold the
ethical, professional, and personal standards set forth by
NALA (the
National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc.), to increase
paralegal awareness by encouraging member participation in
community activities, and to offer membership services at a
reasonable rate. We have created a strong local organization,
and we are achieving our goals by channeling the energies of
our members who work together to provide some needed resources
and information to our local paralegals. We have created this
site as a resource tool for our members and for any other
paralegals who wish to use it. The following paragraphs outline
how to access the information contained on this site.
Before outlining how to use this site,
please note that many of the linked documents on this site are
in portable document file (.pdf) format, and a .pdf reader is
required to view the documents. If you do not have a .pdf reader,
please download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader by
clicking on the link.
Navigation
The navigation system of this site has been
divided into six main sections, which are located in the upper
left corner of every page: Calendar, Education, Employment, Links,
Membership, and News. The subsidiary sections are listed in an
expandable box to the right of each main section, and they will
appear when you cursor over the names of the main sections.
The Calendar
section includes subsections on our dinner meetings, our calendar
of events, our annual seminar, and our year-at-a-glance. The
dinner meetings section
contains information about our monthly dinner meetings, including
the date, time, place, speaker, cost of attendance, and
registration form. The calendar
of events sections contains information on our calendar
of upcoming events. The annual
seminar section contains information on our annual one-half
day seminar, together with a registration form. The
year-at-a-glance section
contains information on the happenings in our association for
the calendar year.
The Education
section contains subsections on our monthly dinner meetings, our
CLA Review course, our scholarship opportunities, and our annual
seminar. The dinner meetings
section contains information on our monthly dinner meetings, including
the date, time, place, speaker, cost of attendance, and registration
form. The CLA review course section
contains information on the CLA review course that we offer,
together with a registration form. The
scholarship section
contains information on the professional and student scholarships
that we offer, and the seminar
section contains information on our annual one-half day seminar,
together with a registration form.
The Employment section includes subsections
on employment opportunities (job bank) and employment wanted.
The employment opportunities section is a listing of job
opportunities in the Southwest Florida area. The employment
wanted section contains advertisements by paralegals who are
seeking employment.
The Links section contains many links to other
websites, and it is divided by categories. The categories of
links are: bar associations,
clerks of court,
codes,
courts,
government agencies,
legal research sources,
libraries,
news,
paralegal
associations,
professional directories,
property appraisers,
reference sources,
rules,
and tax collectors.
The Membership
section contains subsections
on our national and state affiliations,
our board of directors,
our committees, and our
membership categories. The
national/state affiliation
section contains information on our affiliations with national
and state paralegal organizations. The
board of directors section contains
information on our current board of directors.
The committees section
contains a list of our current committees and committee members.
The categories section
contains information on the categories of
membership in our association, as well as membership forms.
The News section
contains excerpts from our bi-monthly newsletter, our
calendar of events, and our current bi-monthly newsletter.
The articles section
contains excerpts from our bi-monthly newsletter.
The calendar-of-events section
contains a listing of our upcoming events. The
bi-monthly newsletter section contains
a downloadable version of our bi-monthly newsletter, Writ
of Assistants.
If you like our site, or if you would like to
see something added or changed, please let us know. There is a
link to our e-mail address at the bottom of every page.
