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Legal Administrative Assistant - Portland
Program Info
Legal Administrative Assistant Program
The Legal Administrative Assistant program is designed to prepare students to enter the legal field as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal.
The program emphasizes practical civil litigation skills and tasks. The program prepares future Legal Assistants and Paralegals to perform tasks such as researching legal issues, drafting legal documents, preparing pleadings, summarizing documents, organizing trial notebooks, and interviewing clients.
Legal Administrative Assistant Class Training
Legal Administrative Assistants continue to assume an increasing range of tasks. Knowledge, ability and accuracy in the following areas are essential:
- Basic accounting principles
- Computer applications
- Communications
- Legal concepts
- Business Law
- Keyboarding
- Office techniques
- Transcription
- Word processing
Legal Administrative Assistant Career Opportunities
On completion of our program, you can gain employment with law firms, corporate legal departments, and various government offices. There are many different areas of law you can pursue including: litigation, personal injury, corporate law, employee benefits, labor law, bankruptcy, and criminal law.
Some career opportunities include:
- Executive assistant
- Legal secretary
- Legal file clerk
* Schedules subject to change. Please contact the campus for current schedule.
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