The Legal Up blog

Once upon a time, you dreamed about having this career.

For many people, becoming a lawyer is a dream come true. Whether they’re attracted to the money, the power, or the ability to impact and protect justice, there are lawyers out there who can practice law for decades without giving it a second thought.

It generally happens right about the time you graduate from law school or receive your paralegal certificate. Suddenly, you’re getting phone calls, texts, and emails from people you’ve not heard from in years. At first, it seems flattering. Then you find out the reasoning behind all this sudden ...

We’ve all done it: skimmed or skipped over the terms of service to agree with whatever the company has written to get to what we want that much more quickly. By this time, we’ve grown confident that there’s probably nothing in that fine print that would be either interesting enough to pay attention ...