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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the development of the law in our society; introduction to legal terminology and reasoning, substantive areas of the law, the legal profession, the paralegal profession, and legal ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the procedures, systems, and ethics of a law office, including timekeeping, file management, document management, library maintenance, and professional development of paralegals.
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3.00 Credits
How to use the law library, perform legal research, write legal memoranda, and use computers as research tools. Initial focus is on learning how to find legal materials, including federal and state case law, statutes and administrative law. Use of finding tools such as digests, encyclopedias, and annotated law reports will be studied, as will Shepardizing. Focus also on legal writing from letters to memoranda.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced legal research, court rules, restatements, administrative decisions, drafting operative legal documents, memoranda of law to trial courts, and appellate briefs.
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3.00 Credits
The fundamentals of bringing and defending a civil lawsuit with emphasis on the role played by paralegals. Includes introduction to court system; jurisdiction; rules of civil procedure and evidence; interviewing clients and witnesses; drafting of pleadings, motions, and other court papers; and ethical practices.
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of the study of the litigation process from discovery to appeal, including drafting of documents, document control and preparation of trial exhibits and notebooks.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the elements of crimes, the workings of the criminal justice system, and criminal trial practice, with special attention given to the assistance a paralegal may provide both to the prosecutor and defense counsel in the preparation of a criminal case.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the basic concepts of inheritance and estates, probate procedure, and preparation of documents.
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3.00 Credits
Methods of recording and conveying land, including the preparation of instruments of title and abstracts of title. Survey of public records, including probate records, judgment rolls, tax records, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on the common law of contracts from the formation of the contract to its termination. Introduction to Uniform Commercial Code.
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