Halo Secretarial Services
The legal industry, virtual assistant businesses and work-life balance.
Author: Laurie Mapp is a paralegal by training and owner of Halo Secretarial Services, which operates out of a home-based office in Alberta, Canada.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Work/Life Balance • Law Firms • Paralegals • International • North America • Canada • Paralegal
Recent Posts from Halo Secretarial Services
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Blogging Virtual Assistance
Blogging is an increasingly powerful business tool, but many business owners just don’t see how they can fit in time for blogging. It’s so essential to keep in touch with your clients though, and blogging…
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Political Payoff
I mean political payoff in a positive way of course! It’s election time soon (yes, here in Canada too!) and while I always follow some of the issues and make a point of voting, I…
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VA/VLA Hourly Charge
I’ve touched on this before, but it continues to be a major source of concern in emails and comments, so I thought I’d do a short post specifically addressing the hourly rate charged by a…
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Got a Law Blog Yet?
I knew as soon as I started planning to open up my virtual assistant practice that I would also have a blog integrated into my website. I knew it would give me a way to…
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Branding and Blogging
Have I mentioned lately that I love Twitter?!! I sometimes have trouble keeping up with all the tweets, but every day I find a few interesting links to check out, or a wonderful new blog. …
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Killer Winner
I participated this past week in the Problogger Killer Title contest and I wanted to share some of my favorite titles and blog posts discovered in checking out all of the competitors. There were some…
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Home Office Lawyer
Check out my guest post about virtual assistance this week over at Grant Griffiths’ Home Office Lawyer. Grant was kind enough to ask for a guest post from me - I just love his work!…
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Cost of Hiring a Virtual Assistant - Part 2
Not too long ago I wrote this post on the financial cost of hiring a virtual assistant. In today’s post I’ll address a different kind of cost - the cost of time spent unnecessarily. How…
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Flex Time or Flee?
I was supposed to go back to my office job this fall, after maternity leave with my third child. People asked me why I didn’t want to go back, after learning that I had no…
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Setup of My Home Office
Here are some pics I took with my new digital camera of my “two” home offices. These first two pictures are from my basement office. It’s relatively organized and I love my two desks, one…