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LEGAL ASSISTING

Department Chair:
Cindy Close, MSEd
330-494-6170
Ext. 4353
Room #: B215i


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Legal Assisting Technology

  • Program Advising Sheet
  • One-Year Legal Assisting Certificate

Legal administrative assistants are employed in private law firms, offices of public defenders, court systems, government agencies, corporate legal departments, insurance companies, banks, real estate agencies, community service agencies and programs, consumer organizations and health care facilities. Today’s law firms are redefining their management structure out of economic necessity. Effective use of support staff is becoming increasingly important.

The program prepares students to assist attorneys in the performance of their professional duties.

The goal is that graduates will be able to organize work areas, use legal resources, make decisions, and exhibit proficiency in the use of legal office procedures and legal information systems; apply practical knowledge and utilize technical skills such as data input methods (keyboarding and voice recognition), transcription, proofreading, legal document production, integrated computer applications, legal research, records management, and use of the Internet; demonstrate employability skills and professionalism in legal office occupations, and work in individual, team and group settings; must be able to form ideas and information verbally and in written form, use computational skills for solving legal office problems and making analytical judgments; acquire, organize and evaluate information to make decisions and solve problems in legal environments.

Suggested Course Sequence

For course descriptions visit here.
First Semester  
Credit Hours
ENG124 College Composition †
3
IRT131 Legal Terminology
3
AOT121 Keyboarding/Formatting
3
AOT130 Communication and Transcription Skills
3
 
BCA220 Integrated Solutions for Business Problem Solving
4
BUS121 Business Administration
4
 
BUS101 Business Student Success Seminar
1
 
   
21
Second Semester  
AOT224 Legal Office Procedures
3
ENG230 Business Communication
3
AOT129 Keyboarding/Skillbuilding
1
 
AOT132 Records Management
3
 
AOT127 Word Processing – Microsoft Word
3
 
BUS123 Business Mathematics
4
 
   
17
 
Third Semester  
AOT239 Legal Transcription
3
COM121 Effective Speaking
3
AOT106 Computer Applications – Microsoft Access
1
ACC130 Business Law and Ethics
3
 
  Social Sciences Elective *
3
 
ACC121 Principles of Accounting
4
 
   
17

Fourth Semester

 
AOT237 Legal Office Applications
3
AOT235

Legal Research and Writing

3
 
AOT226 Spreadsheets – Microsoft Excel
3
 
AOT232 AOT Practicum
3
BUS221 Microeconomics
3
 
AOT108 Microsoft Outlook
1
 
AOT107 Digital Technologies
1
 
   
17
  TOTAL CREDITS
72

* Select from PSY121, SOC121, PSC 121
** Successful completion of AOT102, 104, 105 and 106 is equivalent to and may be substituted for BCA120.

Students who are enrolled at the College for at least one semester and who have passed the Professional Legal Secretary (PLS) examination are eligible to receive credit toward an associate of applied business degree in legal assisting technology, subject to the review and approval of the appropriate department chair.

Bold italicized courses indicate courses that contain content for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification.

 

Students who are enrolled at the College for at least one semester and who have passed the Professional Legal Secretary (PLS) examination are eligible to receive credit toward an associate of applied business degree in legal assisting technology, subject to the review and approval of the appropriate department chair.
 
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