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Certificate Program
This one-year Legal Secretary Certificate Program provides students with a
broad understanding of Connecticut law and the American legal system.
Students become proficient in speedwriting/transcription, word processing
with legal documents, internet research, legal terminology and law office
procedures, as well as other selected assistant course areas.
In addition to assisting in the preparation of court papers, legal
documents (i.e. real estate, probate, civil or criminal litigation) and
correspondence, students will use computers to maintain research
materials, libraries, files and financial records.
During the spring semester students are placed in law officers for legal
work experience.
Students will be prepared to work as legal secretaries in law offices,
legal departments of large commercial concerns and legal bureaus of the
government.Below is a list of courses required for this certificate or degree
program. To print out a checklist of these courses to keep for future
reference, click on the year you began your studies at NCC.
For example, if you are a new student, select 2004-2005. However, if you
started your studies within this program in previous years, click on the
appropriate year since requirements might have changed.
Note: You are only responsible for those course requirements in place at the
time you started your studies.
Download Check Sheets:
2000-01 BOT Legal Cert
2002-03 BOT Legal Cert
2003-04 BOT Legal Cert
2004-05 BOT Legal Cert
2005-06 BOT Legal Cert
Required Courses
ENG 101
Composition 3
BBG 231 Business Law
I
3
BBG 232 Business Law
II 3
LGL 104 Real
Property*
3
LGL 209 Probate
Practice* 3
BOT 111 Keyboarding for Information
Processing
I 3
BOT 112 Keyboarding for Information
Processing
II 3
BOT 161 Business Practices &
Technology 3
BOT 167 Business Computing
Concepts
3
BOT 296 Cooperative Work
Experience
3
Total 30
* Prerequisites will be waived in this
certificate program.
1. Read, understand and prepare standard types of legal communications.
2. Understand and use the legal terminology required in speed dictation of
legal correspondence, preparing forms, documents, and transcribed
material.
3. Employ appropriate legal office procedures.
4. Understand and perform office accounting tasks.
5. Possess appropriate skills in the following software applications:
operating system, word processing. Spreadsheet, database management,
integrated office applications, desktop publishing and presentation
graphics and other software appropriate for the office environment.
6. Understand the importance of confidentiality in dealing with legal
matters.
7. Demonstrate speed and accuracy in keyboarding skills.
8. Have gained appropriate cooperative education experience in this field.
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