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A2508 – Powerful Partnerships: Community Building & Professional Development
Discover tools to grow and sustain your paralegal association through community partnerships, member engagement, and succession planning.
Course Category: Events
Start Date and Time (CT): Tuesday, September 23, 2025 12:00 pm
Description: This program is designed to provide tools for association leaders to build and leverage powerful partnerships with community organizations, increase member participation and engagement in paralegal associations, and prepare for succession planning.
Objectives:
- Promote member participation and engagement for membership retention with paralegal associations to sustain and increase membership
- Define and discuss a professional development program
- Identify potential community partner organizations and collaborations
- Discuss sustainability of paralegal associations including succession planning
- Let’s connect, collaborate, and shape the future of our associations together. If your association has any queries or topics that you would like to discuss, kindly email them to affiliates@nala.org prior to the meeting.
Instructor: Christina Hough
Christina Hough is a seasoned legal paraprofessional having worked as a senior paralegal on
the in-house litigation team of a Fortune 10 company and a legal secretary on the Business Trials team at an AmLaw 50 firm among prior roles. She has more than 20 years of experience working as a member of pre-litigation and litigation teams at small businesses, large enterprises and law firms of varying sizes and specialties. She has extensive experience in general civil litigation matters, including personal injury, products liability, premises liability, construction defect, pharmacy and administrative law, small claims, and other specialized areas of law. She has also argued in court trials before small claims courts in various jurisdictions throughout the western United States and as a result, has obtained numerous defense verdicts on behalf of a Fortune 10 company.
Christina earned her B.A. in Public Administration from Southern New Hampshire University,
graduating summa cum laude and as a Distinguished Scholar with a 4.0 GPA. She received her
paralegal certificate with honors in Generalist Curriculum from the University of San Diego
Paralegal Program - the very first paralegal program in the U.S. to receive American Bar
Association approval. She has completed all coursework for the e-Discovery Certificate program developed by the EDI (Electronic Discovery Institute) Distance Learning Initiative and is in the process of writing an article for EDI approval. She just completed her first
year of law school at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Christina is a member of the San Diego Paralegal Association, University of San Diego Paralegal Alumni Association, National Notary Association, and other professional and academic associations. She has also published articles discussing continuing legal education opportunities, legal technology, workplace productivity, and human interest stories on LinkedIn and for SDPA's newsletter, Precedents. She recently rece
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