What Is Paralegal Work?
– The Utah Supreme Court Offers a Three-Pronged Test by Peggi Lowden The Utah Supreme Court’s definition of a paralegal does not simply define a category of personnel within the legal profession. It is a useful tool to determine effective delegation of legal tasks to non lawyer personnel. The specific section of the definition that provides this delegation tool states, “[paralegal work] involves the performance . . . of specifically delegated substantive legal work, which work for the most part, requires a sufficient knowledge of legal concepts, that absent the [paralegal] the attorney would perform the task.