Join us for this month's exciting speaker and topic!

Jill I Francisco, ACP, former NALA President will be speaking on "Keeping yourself Marketable."

Learn tips to keep yourself marketable in the ever changing paralegal profession. Jill will discuss and give general advice on things you can do to keep yourself valuable and indispensable to your current employer and to prospective employers. She will also discuss technology to learn and/or know about. Jill will emphasize and explain general soft skills to learn or sharpen in today’s legal field and some new ones that have emerged and prove to be essential in our post-pandemic world.

about our speaker:

Jill I. Francisco, Advanced Certified Paralegal, is employed as a paralegal with Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, in their Huntington, WV office. She previously worked as a paralegal at Huddleston Bolen LLP, prior to their merger with Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. She graduated with a B.A. in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Legal Studies from Marshall University. She holds Advanced Paralegal Certifications in E-Discovery, and Trial Practice. She has been working as a paralegal since 1997.

Jill is very active in local and national professional associations within her profession. She was Charter President of the Legal Assistants/Paralegals of Southern West Virginia; a member of the NALA Professional Development Committee; and over the years has served as NALA Affiliated Associations Secretary and Director, Treasurer, Secretary, Second Vice President, Vice President, and was the President of NALA 2018-2020. She serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Paralegals Approval Commission. She also serves on the paralegal program advisory board and is an adjunct professor at Mountwest Community & Technical College in Huntington, West Virginia. She is also a host of The Paralegal Voice podcast on the Legal Talk Network. She resides in Kenova, West Virginia with her husband, Shawn and their son, John David.