Paralegals as Community Reading Partners

Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti interviews Kathy Taylor, the former mayor of Tulsa, at the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) 40th Annual Convention. Together they discuss her involvement in NALA, her passion about early literacy, and the ways in which paralegals, other legal professionals, and any educated adult can help young children succeed by teaching them to read.

Kathy Taylor launched her career as an oil and gas lawyer in 1981, and was also a bankruptcy lawyer and general counsel of a group of companies including Thrifty Car Rental, National Car Rental, and the Lobeck Taylor Foundation.. She then entered the nonprofit world as Secretary of Commerce then Mayor and Chief of Education Strategy for the state of Oklahoma.