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Legal
secretaries and legal 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.
The
program prepares students to assist attorneys in the performance of
their professional duties.
Today’s
law firms are redefining their management structure out of economic
necessity. Effective use of support staff is becoming increasingly
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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,
microcomputer 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.
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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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