Paralegal, Associate's
The Paralegal program is designed to prepare students to enter the legal field as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal. The program prepares future paralegals to research legal issues, draft legal documents, prepare pleadings, summarize documents, organize trial notebooks, and interview clients.
The program also focuses on another aspect of the legal field, contracts. Students learn about the formation of contracts, breach of contracts, and remedies for the breach of contracts. Estate planning, wills, trusts, estate taxes, estate sales, joint tenancy, and judicial determination of death are also covered. In addition, the program also covers family law and criminal law. Family law specializes in divorce, separation, custody, adoption, guardianship, and community property. In criminal law, students learn about defining common law, statutory crimes and punishment, classification of crimes, principles of liability by specific defenses, and basic criminal procedure concepts.