Welcome! My name is Celia. I’m a Registered Paralegal, meaning I passed NFPA’s national Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam and I am in good standing. Here in Oklahoma, I have been fortunate to work with many of the best and brightest attorneys, paralegals, and legal support staff in the greater Oklahoma City area. I was the first legal assistant at the Oklahoma Supreme Court and worked for the Hon. Marian P. Opala. I am passionate about the quality of paralegal education, my profession, legal research, and legal writing.

In the mid-1990s, co-authored a paralegal textbook, Practical Legal Writing for Legal Assistants, with Robert B. Smith, then Director of Legal Writing and Research at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. l also co-authored NFPA’s Study Guide for the National Compentency Paralegal Exam (PACE). I have been the legal writing columnist for Legal Assistant Today, now Paralegal Today and contributed to other paralegal publications. For fifteen years, I was an adjunct instructor at the ABA-approved University of Oklahoma’s Legal Assistant Program. I have done more seminars in Oklahoma and around the country than I can count. My LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/pub/celia-c-elwell-rp/4/21b/4b4/.

I started this blog to share my favorite websites, blog writers, references, and tools – the people and resources I use and rely upon most often. I enjoy poking around for anything that adds or refines my skills and overall knowledge. This is my idea of fun – finding new yummy brain candy. I still have much to learn.

What I post here neither necessarily reflects my opinions nor those of my employer or its clients. It is simply provided because it I thought it was interesting or useful.  Nothing posted here can be relied upon by anyone as legal advice. (Please see the Disclaimer.)

Please send recommendations and comments to pacecce@cox.net. Thanks for stopping by.

Celia C. Elwell, RP