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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2007
Vandeventer Black's Smith Earns Legal Assistant Certification
NORFOLK, VA. The National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) recently announced that Vandeventer Black’s Amanda Smith earned her Certification as a Legal Assistant (CLA). Smith is among only 310 legal assistants in Virginia and 14,143 nationwide who have attained this professional credential.
Smith works with Litigation attorneys Richard Ottinger and James Harvey III in Vandeventer Black’s Norfolk office. To learn more about Vandeventer Black go to www.vanblk.com.
Established in 1976, the CLA examination program is a voluntary professional credentialing program developed by the NALA and administered by a board composed of legal assistants, members of the American Bar Association and members of the field of education active in legal assistant training. The CLA program involves successful completion of a rigorous two-day comprehensive exam covering the topics of communications; legal research; ethics; human relations and interviewing techniques; legal terminology; judgment and analytical ability and substantive law. Continuing legal education is required to maintain certified status.
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