The Paralegal’s Role in Drafting Legal Documents

If you’re a long time reader, then you’ll know I enjoy both skincare and the legal profession. There is an abundance of research in the worlds of beauty sales and law that applies to paralegals, skin care products, organizations, and how the two relate. Since paralegals share many of the same characteristics as a legal practitioner or visual aesthetician, it makes perfect sense for this article to examine how bagging a new beauty product can be similar to comprehensive legal document drafting.

I’m sure you’re well aware of how much thought and precision is inputted into beauty routines. From personalized regimens to products designed for particularly skin type or hair structure. To even develop a single lip color, skin texture, or nail polish shade, formulators must account for things like pH balance, color profiles, ingredient interaction, and harmful potential. Because of all of these factors, beauty product development is definitely a practice of science, but also art. I think most people have used a skin care product or hair care product with poor formulation and found that it terribly affected their skin or hair. As a result, they had to go run out and buy different products to heal the damage the first product caused.

Of course, this same level of precision is necessary when drafting legal documents. Legal documentation, just like a beauty product formula, involves an organized structure. Every small detail matters. In their line of work, paralegals know all too well that something as simple as changing a number or leaving off an “s” can mean the difference between winning a case and losing a case.

As a consequence of this, the logical next question is one about the daily realities of a paralegal’s work. Someone that develops your moisturizer has a very similar job to that of a paralegal. Both positions involve a certain level of research, drafting, editing, and formatting. The difference is that paralegals must stay within the bounds of legality.

In legal documentation, paralegals cannot draft and create certain documents because they are not authorized to do so. The only documents they can draft are documents that do not require a legal practitioner. A few of the documents a paralegal can reasonably draft include: Some people might assume there is no relevance in organizing your skincare products and a paralegal wanting to work efficiently and accurately within the confines of the law.

However, the reality is that organization is just as relevant when a paralegal is preparing assets for a client. Having classification helps with understanding the need for organization in both fields of profession. The ultimate example of an organized professional is the paralegal … and your makeup collection.

Here are just a handful of examples of where organization is useful: Yes, when a paralegal puts a pencil to paper, it is included in a system of checks and balances. That system of checks and balances exists in a paralegal’s office, just as it exists on your beauty counter. Both must process through an organizational system (check and balances) to ensure nothing is missed.

After all, being organized helps you identify the skin issues you need to address just like a paralegal identifies the issues affecting a case. Removing what you don’t need and keeping what you need all while identifying the things that would be beneficial to add at a later date. While this may sound like I am equating both professions and seems unrealistic, it is true.

So maybe the old axiom of can paralegals draw legal documents is like asking if skin care products can break you out or give you other skin problems. When you think about it, you start to realize that understanding the needs of a legal system can be like having the perfect batched beauty brand.