paralegaladj.n.

1951 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 11 486 The Charter is designed to exclude the veering of the Charter by the method of equity, unless the Permanent Members of the Security Council concur in paralegal determination.

1968 Virginia Law Rev. 54 611 The development of a paralegal specialist to provide certain kinds of legal services now performed by practicing attorneys.

1977 Times 12 July 4/6 If legal aid was not available, the staff of the first-tier agency, who would have some paralegal training, would try to help.

1994 Harper's May 58/1 I'm white, fairly well educated, moderately articulate, have taken paralegal courses, and now I even have a good lawyer.

1969 Law Jrnl. 46 393 The ‘paralegal’ is one who is not a lawyer, nor under direct supervision of a lawyer, but who needs some legal training to do his job well.

1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 22 Aug. 2/7 (advt.) Para-legals (that is, legal assistants or paraprofessionals) are used by an ever-increasing number of prominent attorneys to reduce their unwanted load of paralegal matters and free up their time to render legal advice more efficiently.

1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 48/2 About 20 paid paralegals represent defendants in lower courts in the Metro area and hundreds of non-lawyers act in court for the Crown.

1994 Guardian 10 Nov. i. 6/8 We are trying to do the task as economically as possible by using paralegals who are not qualified solicitors to do the bulk of the work.