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Essential Paralegal Studies Part II: Authority, Research and Writing

LAW X419

41409
Delivery Options Online
Learn all aspects of advanced paralegal practice, including legal research, legal writing, breaking rules into elements, applying rules to facts, pleading preparation, discovery coordination, digesting discovery documents, file maintenance, billable hours, form manipulation, electronic research, motion preparation and other areas relevant to becoming a successful paralegal.

Prerequisites: Essential Paralegal Studies Part I: Foundational Skills LAW X418

Course Outline

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Course Objective

  • Gain the advanced paralegal skills necessary to work under an attorney’s supervision.


What You Learn

  • Primary, secondary and non-authority
  • Unified Theory of Legal Research
  • Legal reference resources, including electronic forms (Westlaw, LexisNexis) and analog (American Law Reports, Digests, Shepard's Citators)
  • Legal writing, crafting a demand letter, client correspondence
  • IRAC method of legal analysis and its use in creating a legal memorandum
  • Creating valid citation from an actual case
  • Litigation support 
  • Summons
  • Prepare Interrogatories, Requests for Admissions and Requests for Production of Documents
  • Deposition summaries
  • Motions, notices and briefs
  • Citing dissenting authority
  • Client file review


How You Learn

  • Online
  • Workbook
  • Internet-based educational support on the ParalegalSpace Website (lecture notes, audio commentary, exercises, paralegal perspectives, writing labs, citation labs, research labs, analysis commentary, review and mock exams)
  • Hypothetical client case used as the basis for all legal research and writing assignments


Is This Course Right for Me?
This course is for those interested in becoming paralegals, those who could benefit from a practical understanding of the legal representative process, or for anyone who needs to understand the essentials of paralegal studies. This course could also be beneficial for those considering law school.

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Sections

Section 017

Start Anytime Online

Course Fee(s)

Course Fee credit (2 units)

$1,995.00

Type Online, Start Anytime

Enroll anytime and progress through the curriculum at your own pace.

Dates
Start Now, you have 92 days to complete this course once enrolled.

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

2 semester units

Instructors

  • Tod Zuckerman

Section Notes

Students have 3 months to complete this course.

Students have already purchased the Essential Skills Bundle for this course.

Your user name and password for the online modules on ParalegalSpace will differ from your user name and password for the UC Berkeley Extension website. You will receive an e-mail containing your ParalegalSpace log-in information approximately 3-5 business days after enrolling in a course.

Section Materials

  • (Mandatory) Essential Skills for Paralegals Bundle - online

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Paralegal Studies

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Required Courses

  • Essential Paralegal Studies Part I: Foundational Skills
  • Essential Paralegal Studies Part II: Authority, Research and Writing
  • Paralegal E-Discovery Process and Practice

Electives

  • Paralegal Business Law
  • Paralegal California Procedures
  • Paralegal Contract Law
  • Paralegal Criminal Law
  • Paralegal Family Law
  • Paralegal Intellectual Property Law
  • Paralegal Tort Law
  • Principles of Business Law

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Online section must be completed within three months of receiving course login information.

Departmental contact: extension-techeng@berkeley.edu

English Language Proficiency Requirements

All of our courses are taught in English. For you to be successful, you should be able to demonstrate your English proficiency by speaking at the following testing levels:

  • TOEFL: 90
  • IELTS Academic Format: 7
  • DAAD: C1
  • TEM-4 or TEM-8: Level 70
  • iBT Special Home Edition and myBest scores are accepted. Scores must be from the past two years.
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Tod Zuckerman

Tod Zuckerman, J.D., Extension Honored Instructor, 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. Zuckerman is the co-author of Environmental Liability Allocation: Law and Practice, 2013 ed. (Thomson West, 2013) as well as numerous other legal works.
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