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illie Dyson, age 37, is the epitome of legal support staff competence. She did word processing at a law firm while in high
school and steadily worked her
way through the ranks. From
secretary for three litigators in
an insurance defense practice to senior paralegal in
the IP department of a 150-year-old firm in Kentucky,
she’s done it all. She has a razor sharp intellect, a brutally honest world view and over seventeen years of
battle-hardened experience in the legal trenches.

We interviewed Millie while researching management issues in the legal profession for J.Ferm's
No Frills No Fluff(TM) Management Skills Lawyer's
Edition Program. As we began correlating data and
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