Becky Rolland is the president/owner of Freelance Paralegal Services and The Write Place. Prior to starting her own companies, she worked as a Bankruptcy Paralegal Specialist for the Chapter 13 Trustees in the Eastern and Western Divisions of the District of Massachusetts, the United States Justice Department as Interim Chapter 13 Trustee, and various law firms. Throughout her tenure as a bankruptcy paralegal she has assisted attorneys with training paralegals and has conducted seminars on bankruptcy law and self-employment for the Massachusetts Paralegal Association and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. She currently lives in New Orleans where she is now an active member in the New Orleans Paralegal Association where she served as Vice President in 2005.

RECOGNITION BY THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PARALEGAL ASSOCIATIONS (NFPA) BY KATHY WILLIAMS, NFPAT SECONDARY REPRESENTATIVE AND PAST PRESIDENT OF NEW ORLEANS PARALEGAL ASSOCIATION

In October, the New Orleans Paralegal Association hosted its 2009 Annual Education Seminar for Paralegals, for which Becky Rolland, NFPA Secondary, was the Seminar Chairperson. NOPA is very proud and grateful to Becky for her outstanding leadership in pulling together the biggest and most successful annual education seminar that NOPA has ever had the pleasure of hosting in all its years since 1979. The seminar was everything we had ever dreamed it could be: the highest attendance ever, the most vendors, most tables and most sponsorships ever; scholarships and discounts for students and members whose firms were not paying their registrations due to the economy; most new members coming forward to join NOPA as a result of the seminar, and the largest seminar dollar profit ever.

Robert Fleischmann, NFPA Primary, and our board members and committee chairs and some other volunteers, as well as the speakers, all worked hard and contributed significantly to the final team outcome, but Becky was the seminar chairperson, who took charge, did a great deal of work herself, and guided us to NOPA’s huge success.

We want NFPA to know how proud we all are of Becky. Because of her efforts, NOPA is better known, not only in the legal community of New Orleans, but in the overall general community as well. The paralegal profession in this city stepped up a notch that day, which is ultimately what Becky wanted, she told me, and we could not be happier. After such a huge recent success, I could not let the opportunity go by to tell you about Becky, who recently attended the NFPA convention. She will probably want to kill me, but I want to share all this gratitude I am feeling. Her leadership made a huge difference to NOPA this year, and set the stage for even bigger and better successes in NOPA’s future and for the paralegal profession in New Orleans.

THANK YOU, BECKY!