The legal assistant—also referred to as a “paralegal”—has become in less than two decades an integral part of the legal profession. This program equips its graduates to function both as an attorney’s general assistant and as a highly competent specialist in a particular area of law. In addition to 16 hours of general education courses, and 3 hours of electives, all students must complete 36 hours of core courses and one of the 9-hour specialty clusters of either Litigation, Real Estate/Probate, Commercial Law, or Criminal Law. (Specialty clusters are taught only in the evening and are scheduled over two terms when a sufficient number of students have indicated that they are ready for and want a particular cluster.) Nearly half of the program’s graduates return for additional specialization and may work towards an advanced technical certificate of recognition for each specialty cluster completed (see page 108 for further information). Courses are structured and scheduled so that a student should be able to enter the program on either a full or part-time basis in any day or night term.
 
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