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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PLS 210Study of state and federal courts, and the civil litigation processincluding:, preparation of case before trial, interviewing prospectivewitnesses, interviewing expert witnesses, preparation of pleadings,pretrial discovery, trial proofs, and actual courtroom experienceobserving trials.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PLS 310Building on the principles covered in Litigation I, students developpractical skills in drafting pleadings, discovery, documents, motions,jury instructions, trial notebooks, and post-trial and appealsmemoranda. The role of the paralegal in assisting attorneys duringsettlement, trial or Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods isstressed.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the nature of proceedings and the necessary pleadingsinvolved with cases before administrative agencies on the local, state,and federal level. Discusses the right to appeal to the courts afterhaving exhausted the remedies available through such administrativeagencies
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3.00 Credits
Discusses the principles of law involved in secured transactions,commercial paper, and sales. Security interest in real and personalproperty are studied under secured transactions.
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3.00 Credits
Examines laws of descent and distribution; probate administration,proceedings, administration of estates, preparation of petition forprobate and other probate matters, estate tax, federal and state,fiduciary's account; and estate planning
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3.00 Credits
Study of real estate conveyancing, reviewing substantive real propertylaw, deeds, wills, leases, mortgages, and other security interests.Includes actual on-site title searches and abstracts at a recorder ofdeeds office, together with the preparation for and conducting of areal estate sale and closing.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of immigrationlaw. This course will teach students the various types of visa, legalpermanent residence, and United States citizenship. It will examinethe principles and processes associated with immigration applicationsand procedures including tourist and student visas, family-basedresidence applications, employment-based residence applicationsand visas asylum, citizenship and naturalization, and removal ordeportation cases in Immigration Court
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or consent of Paralegal Studies DirectorThis course will focus on preparing paralegals to assume a productiverole in elder law practice. Its practical and organized style lays a solidfoundation in key concepts with broad coverage that includes elder lawpractice. Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, end-of-life issues andage description will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover four fields of intellectual property: trademarks,copyrights, patents and trade secrets. It covers topics such as durationof rights, protection form infringement and new internationaldevelopments in this field of law. Patent reform, patent trolls, copyrightpre-registration and investigations will be covered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of Paralegal Studies DirectorTo provide students an introduction to the principles and sourceson international law regulating transactions among nations, and itsexpansion to non-stat actors (e.g. the private individual, internationalorganizations and transactional corporations), and the internationallaw legal process. Students will study the mechanisms for enforcinginternational law and resolving international disputes, includinginternational courts and tribunals, and centers of arbitration andmediation. Additionally the course introduces students to selectedsubstantive areas of international law, to include the law of the sea,human rights, and international criminal law.
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