Paralegal Definition:

A person who is not a lawyer or is not acting in that capacity but who provides a limited number of legal services.

A person who is not a lawyer or is not acting in that capacity but who provides a limited number of legal services.

Each country differs in the authority it gives paralegals in exercising what traditionally would be lawyers' work.

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