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Intake
The first 48 hours
Sign the client, open the file, protect the claim. What you capture on day one decides what the case is worth on day one thousand.
New Jersey · Personal Injury · Nothing Else
Anyone can learn the law.
You'll learn the work.
Paralegal Stars™ is a single-subject informational and educational tool for the New Jersey personal injury paralegal. One practice area. One standard. The one firms are eager to hire and slow to lose.
Paralegal Stars™ is an informational and educational tool. Nothing here is legal advice, a legal opinion, or a substitute for the judgment of a licensed attorney, and no attorney-client relationship is formed.
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Practice area. Nothing else.
171
Lessons across the case lifecycle
1,000+
Rubric-graded questions
20
Questions a day, every day
The Standard
A great paralegal doesn't hold the file. They hold the case together.
Built from real files
Every lesson comes out of New Jersey practice, the crash report, the dec page, the lien letter, the closing statement.
Graded, not guessed
Written rubrics tell you precisely why the work landed at firm standard, or exactly how far it fell short.
Ethics on every page
Confidentiality and unauthorized-practice lines. Elite is not the same as reckless.
The Curriculum
Nine disciplines. One complete paralegal.
Follow a New Jersey personal injury case from the first phone call to the final distribution, and learn every move a firm expects you to make along the way.
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Evidence
Police reports, decoded
Read the NJTR-1 the way an adjuster reads it. Contributing-circumstance codes, crash diagrams, OPRA, ISO history, scene photographs.
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Coverage
New Jersey insurance, cold
PIP, deductibles, the limitation on lawsuit option, UM/UIM, dec pages, household benchmarks, and the 2026 minimums, read fluently.
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Medicine
Records that prove damages
Chase treatment, build the chronology, spot the gap before defense counsel does, and turn a stack of bills into a coherent story of harm.
05
Diagnostics
MRI, EMG, and why timing wins
Know what an image proves, what a study rules out, and why the calendar between the crash and the film is a negotiating position.
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Demand
The package that gets paid
Liability, causation, treatment, permanency, specials, exhibits. Assembled so the adjuster's own file writes your number for you.
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Litigation
Discovery under pressure
Complaint to trial: interrogatories, document demands, deposition prep, expert scheduling, and calendars that never slip.
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Resolution
Negotiation and the close
Liens, holdbacks, Medicare and Medicaid, closing statements, and a distribution the client understands the first time.
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AI Workflow
Leverage, verified
Summarize records, draft faster, audit your own work, with the judgment, ethics, and verification that keep a firm safe.
Evidence Literacy
The file is the curriculum.
We don't hand you a textbook. We hand you the crash report, the ISO history, the dec page, the MRI narrative and the billing ledger, and teach you to read them the way the adjuster on the other side already does.
- NJTR-1 fields, codes, and crash-type diagrams
- PIP EOBs, ledgers, and lien exposure
- Records chronologies that survive a deposition
AI Workflows
AI is the tool.
Judgment is the skill.
The paralegals who thrive in the next decade will move faster than anyone before them, and be right. You'll learn where automation earns its place in a personal injury file, and exactly where a human must sign off.
- Summarize a thousand pages without losing the case
- Draft, then verify, with a checklist that holds
- Confidentiality and verification, non-negotiable
The Path
Five steps, repeated until they're instinct.
- 01
Learn the move
Short, cinematic lessons built from real New Jersey files. No theory for theory's sake.
- 02
Do the work
Every unit ends in a deliverable: a chronology, a demand, a discovery response, a closing statement.
- 03
Get scored
A written rubric, not an opinion. You see exactly what separated your work from firm standard.
- 04
Repeat under pressure
Daily twenty-question sets and timed simulations until the right instinct is the fast one.
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Carry the proof
A record of the training you completed and a portfolio of real work product a hiring partner can actually read.
The number on the settlement sheet was decided months earlier, by the person who built the file.
That person is you
Your Training Record
Earned in the work. Kept for your portfolio.
Every program closes with a Paralegal Stars™ training record and the portfolio behind it, the actual demand packages, chronologies and discovery responses you produced. It documents training you completed here. It is not a certification, license, or accredited qualification.
Built for New Jersey practice · Independent training standards
LEVEL · I