Legal Assistant

Empire College School of Business
Santa Rosa, California, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Develop legal assisting skills, coupled with general education classes, to expand your potential for supervisory or management responsibility in a legal firm through our California legal assistant courses.

Objective: This program is designed to prepare graduates to assume positions as legal assistants/paralegals, legal secretaries or administrative support staff in a law office. Emphasis is placed on the development of legal office skills such as case management, legal research, discovery, docketing, drafting and analyzing legal documents, and alternative dispute resolution. A 75-hour internship is included.

Further concentration on critical thinking and decision making, human relations, and communications coupled with general education classes is designed to produce well-qualified legal assistants. The emphasis in this program is placed on marketable skills.

Program Length: 7 quarters
Specialized (Occupational) Associate Degree awarded upon successful completion of all graduation requirements.

NOTE: Effective January 1, 2001, paralegals are defined by the California Business and Professions Code Section 6450 et seq. as to their education and experience. Section 6454 - Definitions: The terms ¡°paralegal,¡± ¡°legal assistant,¡± ¡°attorney assistant,¡± ¡°freelance paralegal,¡± ¡°independent paralegal¡± and ¡°contract paralegal¡± are synonymous for purposes of this chapter.

This program includes the following courses:

Business Law
Civil Litigation courses
Real Property
Family Law
Estate Planning and Probate
Law Office Docketing, Accounting and Management
Mediation/Conflict Management
Ethics in Technology and Society
Legal Research
Advanced Legal Research and Writing
Internship for Paralegals
Bookkeeping
Various Computer, Internet and Microsoft courses
Management Communications
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Phone:707-546-4000

School Address:

Empire College
3035 Cleveland Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
USA

Jobs & Resumes: Santa Rosa
Houses & Roommates: Santa Rosa

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