A legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training, or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. [Guidelines for the Approval of Paralegals Education Programs, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Paralegals, Effective September 1, 2008 at page 3.] Read more . . .