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 This course provides an overview of common legal documents. You will prepare sample documents and learn to analyze legal problems.
Important: This six-course series will provide you with the skills and knowledge you will need to perform the basic duties of a paralegal. By the time you finish this series, you will have a solid understanding of what activities a paralegal must perform and how to perform them. If you are interested in becoming a paralegal, completing this program will take you one step closer to your goal. However, please understand that this is a non-credit program and it does not lead to any type of professional certification or a degree. Although there is no current requirement in any state other than California that a paralegal have any level of professional experience or hold any type of degree, most employers prefer to hire paralegals who have experience working in a law office and/or an associate's degree, in addition to the skills and knowledge taught in this program. If you have not already done so, we recommend that you consider working as an intern in a law office and/or enrolling in an accredited two-year college degree program while (or soon after) completing this series of courses.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Scott and Lisa Hatch.
 Scott Hatch has presented paralegal courses since 1980. He is listed in Who's Who in California, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, and has been named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America by the United States Jaycees. He was a contributing editor to The Judicial Profiler (McGraw-Hill and the Colorado Law Annotated (West/Lawyers Co-op)series, and editor of several award-winning publications. He is author of Paralegal Procedures and Practices, published by West Publishing, as well as books on mediation and legal investigation.
Lisa Zimmer Hatch, M.A., has been teaching legal certificate and standardized test preparation courses since 1987. She graduated with honors in English from the University of Puget Sound, and received her master's degree from California State University. She is co-author of numerous law and standardized test texts.
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Requirements:
Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader). High School Diploma or equivalent, college experience and/or law office experience is helpful but not required. You will also need to purchase the following textbooks through Amazon.com before the course begins: - Basics of Legal Document Preparation, Robert R. Cummins, Albany: Delmar Publishers Inc., 1996
- Federal Civil Rules Booklet, current edition
- Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems and Skills, 6th Edition, by William Statsky, Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1997
- Paralegal Procedures and Practices, by Scott A. and Lisa Zimmer Hatch. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1993
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Legal Analysis
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
Legal Analysis Practice
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
Types of Legal Documents
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
Techniques of Drafting Documents
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
Demand Letters
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Pleadings
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
Motions and Orders
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
External Memoranda of Law
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Internal Memoranda of Law
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
Preparation of an Internal Memorandum of Law
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
Discovery Documents
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
Depositions
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Student Reviews:
"Fantastic Course! Lots of useful information, thank you. Look forward to taking the next course."
"Martin is a terrific instructor and I wish he was teaching the next courses. All in all this is a very good course for Paralegal Training. I really like the on-line format."
"This course really gave me an insight into how much "work product" goes into, JUST ONE case. I throughly enjoyed the lessons, assignments, and QUIZZES! See you in course 3."
"this course was great and I cannot wait to begin the next one."
"While a lot of what I do on a daily basis provides me with a lot of technical background, learning more about the daily application of the law to many of the cases I deal with, is helping me become a better secretary and leading me in the right direction to becoming a good paralegal. This class is a great source for me to become better at what I do."
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