Business Technology
Legal Administrative Assistant
Certificate or A.A.S. Degree, 63-108.5 credits, 3-6 quarters
Program Description
A legal administrative assistant performs all general office duties including transcribing and formatting legal documents and business
correspondence, filing, and law library maintenance. Legal administrative assistants also use legal terminology vocabulary; apply
fundamental law office procedures and court rules, and maintain public relations skills when coordinated with other law offices and courts.
Average length of program
One and two-year programs have been designed especially for students who desire training for employment with a law firm or law-related office.
Students who successfully complete this program are prepared to:
- have the ability to spell, pronounce, and correctly use legal terms;
- have the ability to write and accurately transcribe dictated legal material;
- have an understanding of various office forms and documents;
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have the ability to operate office machines, including computers, printers, automatic typewriters, transcribing equipment, and digital copying machines;
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have the ability to organize and plan office work, and exercise leadership skills that make the modern employer-employee relationship a pleasant
and successful experience;
- be able to demonstrate principles of business management in a small law office;
- be able to demonstrate an entry-level competence and knowledge of word processing and personal computers; and
- be able to demonstrate language and human relations skills to enhance communications with other law-related offices and courts.
We offer you two special ways to earn college credit toward your certificate or degree in many of the Business Technology Department
programs. One way is the successful completion of a high school business courses, and the second is to pass the
Microsoft Office Specialist certification exams.
You may also earn many college credits toward a certificate or degree through the successful completion of online classes. Students may complete
as many as 71 credits of the 109 credits required in the Administrative Assistant and Office Applications Specialist programs through our extensive
offering of online classes. Many of the tests for the courses are proctored; local colleges and libraries are often willing to proctor exams.