Specialization in Legal Assistant

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Delivery

Campus

Study mode

Full Time

Starts

Fall, Spring

Introduction

Specialization in Legal Assistant is a program taught at Wytheville Community College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (Four-semester (two-year) program) options.

The Associate of Applied Science degree in Business and Office in Administrative Support Technology with a Specialization in Legal Assistant teaches the technical skills and critical thinking skills required of a legal assistant. Students cover legal assistant tasks such as helping lawyers prepare for closings, hearings, trials, and corporate meetings, preparing legal arguments, drafting pleadings and motions filed with the court, obtaining affidavits, and drafting contracts, mortgages, and separation agreements.

The program is a four-semester, two-year structure. It combines courses in keyboarding, office record keeping, specialized software applications, interpersonal communication, legal writing, criminal law, legal courses such as elder law, and office administration skills. Students also complete AST 298: Seminar and Project in Administrative Support.

Modules

LGL 110: Introduction to the Law and the Paralegal
LGL 126: Legal Writing
LGL 218: Criminal Law
LGL 236: Elder Law
AST 101 1: Keyboarding I
AST 102: Keyboarding II
AST 136: Office Record Keeping
AST 236: Specialized Software Applications
CST 126 5: Interpersonal Communication
AST 107: Editing/Proofreading Skills
AST 141: Word Processing I
AST 234: Records and Database Management

Admission Requirements

The minimum requirements for admission in Specialization in Legal Assistant at Wytheville Community College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

program specific academic requirment set by Wytheville Community College.
English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Wytheville Community College as pre-requiste for admission in Specialization in Legal Assistant.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

In addition to the admission requirements established for the college, entry into the Administrative Support Technology: Legal Assistant Specialization program requires competency in English and Math – MDE 10 as demonstrated through direct enrollment and diagnostic tests, or by satisfactorily completing the required EDE and/or MDE units or the equivalent.