Legal Literacy In Action How Paralegals Bridge The Gap Between Everyday People & The Legal System

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to increase legal literacy? Are there ways to make court processes more accessible to people without the high cost and barriers of a traditional lawyer's office? In this episode, Julie L. Pham joins us to discuss her approach to helping others make empowered legal decisions – and what this means for building a more inclusive, transparent, and user-friendly legal system for everyday people.

Working with Paralegal-Ease & Notary, LLC, Julie provides more than a decade of experience to those who need it most. Specializing in legal document support, she helps families across Southern California in the areas of family law, divorce, custody, estate planning, civil matters and drafting more.

How do paralegals help their clients save time, avoid costly mistakes, and move forward with clarity? Hit play to learn more about these invaluable legal services!

This conversation covers:

Legal processes that people tend to need the most help with.
How self-represented individuals can make educated decisions about their legal issues.
Common misconceptions surrounding DIY legal solutions.
The top reasons why people seek out a competent paralegal instead of an attorney.

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Transcript

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0:28.6	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.3	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. Jacob's.
0:41.2	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:43.2	I guess today is Julie Pham.
0:46.6	She runs paralegal ease and notary LLC.
0:48.8	So we're going to talk about paralegal services.
0:53.8	And as part of her mission, that's important to her is to help increase legal literacy and make, you know, legal solutions available for people that may not be able to have them right now. So welcome, Julie. Thanks for coming. Yeah. Thanks, Richard. Thanks for having me. Yeah. So tell me about what you do. What area of law do you provide paralegal services in, or is it multiple areas? Yeah. You know, when people ask, I say specialize in paralegal work.
1:13.4	So we primarily help with people who have family law needs, like, you know, custody, divorce,
1:21.3	parent petitions, things like that. We also do a lot of pre-nups, post-nups, some civil stuff we do. We do really anything under the sun
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