Paralegal

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Program Overview
The Paralegal Online Training Program will prepare you for success in this growing career field. You’ll learn about the American legal system, how to conduct legal research and legal interviews, how to perform legal analyses, and more. Your training will prepare you to become a legal secretary or paralegal and to take the certification exam.(*)

Through a special arrangement between ed2go and the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) Campus, your tuition includes free access to the seven preparatory exam courses offered at the NALA Campus. Regardless of whether or not you're eligible for certification or plan to take the exam, the NALA Campus preparatory courses ed2go also provides all paralegal students with free access to Westlaw to complete their assigned research projects. Westlaw is an online legal research service that provides fast and easy access to an extensive collection of legal resources, news, business, and public records information. Access to the number-one rated online legal resource, Westlaw, will benefit you tremendously as you perform your legal research assignments during your paralegal education.

After completing this program, you'll:

• Understand the common responsibilities and duties of paralegals
• Know how the paralegal field is regulated
• Understand ethics for attorneys and paralegals
• Be familiar with how the American legal system is structured and how it operates
• Be able to perform legal analyses
• Conduct legal interviews
• Understand the duties of a litigation assistant in the four stages of litigation
• Conduct legal research
• Implement guidelines and proper etiquette for legal writing
• Understand methods of formal and informal administrative advocacy