Essential Paralegal Studies
X402 (4 semester units in Law)
This is a core course in the Paralegal Studies Program.Essential Paralegal Studies is the beginning course in the UC Berkeley Extension Paralegal Studies Program. Topics include all aspects of paralegal skills, including legal terminology, court structure, legal ethics, evidence, investigation, interviewing, analysis, legal research, legal writing, pleading preparation, discovery coordination, file maintenance, billable hours, form manipulation, electronic research, motion preparation, and other areas relevant to being an effective paralegal.
Note: Online section must be completed within six months of enrollment date.
To begin the Paralegal Studies Program, enroll in both Essential Paralegal Studies and the concurrent substantive law topic course for your location.
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TAMMI CLEARFIELD, J.D., has a private practice in Coral Gables, Fla. She has more than 11 years of legal experience and more than 10 years of teaching experience both in the classroom and online, at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
- Online course: Internet access required
- Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
- $3,495 (EDP 317040)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Note: Please purchase course materials at www.ucbxparalegalbooks.com
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Essential Skills Bundle - Online Program
Publisher: ICD
Sections closed for enrollment
Mon. Sept. 14, Fresno
LORI MAYFIELD, J.D., managing partner at Mayfield & Leath, is a trial attorney who has represented businesses in product liability, premises liability, construction defect litigation, and other tort and contract related cases. She also represents public entities in civil rights and injury claims as well as represents individuals who have been injured or damaged as a result of negligent conduct or improper handling of employment issues.NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.
Mon. Sept. 14, Redwood City
MICHAEL WHITE, J.D., is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group of GCA Law Partners LLP in Mountain View, Calif. White joined GCA in June 2003 after practicing for three years at Thelen Reid & Priest LLP in San Francisco, where he had been a senior associate since 2000. He specializes in the negotiation and structuring of venture-capital and angel financings for emerging technology companies, mergers, and acquisitions for both selling and acquiring companies, and a variety of joint-venture, licensing, affiliate, and partnering arrangements for his corporate clients. White also advises entrepreneurs as well as corporate and LLC clients with regard to an array of start-up and general business matters, including corporate finance, employee equity, and compensation issues, and contract negotiations. Previously, White practiced at Britton Silberman & Cervantez LLP in San Francisco and Morrison & Foerster LLP in Palo Alto.
In addition to dozens of bridge-loan and preferred-stock financings and hundreds of technology transactions for high-technology companies, White has participated in several major corporate transactions, including:
- Representing three major real estate investment trusts in numerous public offerings of equity and debt, as well as private equity, financings
- Representing a Fortune 100 corporation as part of its Western U.S. legal team in a nationwide roll-up in the automotive industry, comprising more than a dozen individual acquisitions over a two-year period
- The negotiation and structuring of a $40 million sale by a worldwide conglomerate of its interest in a major U.S. utility company
White's clients include companies as dynamic and diverse as Friendster, Inc.; Fuse Project, LLC; ; and Arabella Hotel Holding International Group. White frequently has been invited to speak to both attorneys and entrepreneurs on start-up, financing, securities law, and other legal issues associated with emerging high-technology companies. Such presentations have included "Representing Startups and Emerging Growth Companies in a Down Market," "Venture Capital Financings – Anatomy of a Stock Purchase Agreement," and "Counseling the High Tech Start-up: Corporate, Licensing, and I.P. Issues."
White earned his juris doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1996. He obtained a bachelor of arts in political science from UC Berkeley in 1993.
- 21 meetings
- Sept. 14 to Feb. 22: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meetings Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Jan. 18)
- Redwood City: Room 5, Peninsula Center, 1991 Broadway
- $3,100 (EDP 301721)
Mon. Sept. 14, San Francisco
TOD I. ZUCKERMAN, J.D., named Honored Instructor in 2009, has practiced in the areas of insurance coverage and environmental law since 1980. He has been a prosecutor, defense counsel, author, and general practitioner. His teaching subjects include environmental, contract, insurance, and business law. He is writing another book on environmental law.
- 21 meetings
- Sept. 14 to Feb. 22: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meetings Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Jan. 18)
- San Francisco: Room 802, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $3,100 (EDP 301713)
Sat. Sept. 26, Berkeley
TOD I. ZUCKERMAN, J.D., named Honored Instructor in 2009, has practiced in the areas of insurance coverage and environmental law since 1980. He has been a prosecutor, defense counsel, author, and general practitioner. His teaching subjects include environmental, contract, insurance, and business law. He is writing another book on environmental law.Revised class schedule in red.
- 21 meetings
- Sept. 26 to March 6: Sat., 10 am-1 pm (no meetings Nov. 28, Dec. 26, Jan. 2, Jan. 16, and Feb. 13); also
March 9 and March 16: Tues., 6:30-9:30 pm
- Berkeley: Room 208, UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Ave.
- $3,100 (EDP 301739)
Note: Classes on February 6, 20, and 27, March 6, 9, and 16 will meet in various rooms. Please check signs.
