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  • PLG 215: Law Office Management

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Covers the fundamentals of law office management. Designed to familiarize the paralegal with the practical inner-workings of a law office including understanding law office procedures. Law office management goes beyond mere efficiency and productivity and includes being sensitive to ethical concerns and providing quality legal services to clients in an affordable manner. Covers an array of topics that will be encountered in a law office setting.
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  • PLG 220: Contract Law & Business Organ

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides paralegal students with an understanding of basic business law concepts. The students will demonstrate their knowledge of contracts by drafting various contract clauses and an entire contract. The students will also be required to understand judicial interpretation of the contract principles by completing assignments. Educates paralegal students with regard to business organization and prepares the student to work in the area of corporate law as a paralegal. Gives the students an overview of the laws and the theory as well as practical information concerning sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Students will be required to analyze cases to illustrate the application of laws being discussed. The students will also be required to draft various documents regarding business operations. Warranties, sales, and agency agreements are also reviewed.
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  • PLG 225: Law of Corporations & Other Bu

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course will cover the formation, operation, and dissolution of various kinds of business organizations. Subjects covered include: sole proprietorships, corporations, partnerships, and the law of agency and employment agreements.
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  • PLG 227: Criminal Law & Proc for Parale

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course presents a study of the substantive and procedural aspects of criminal law and the role of the paralegal working in the area of criminal defense or criminal prosecution. Students will study the general principles of criminal liability, analysis of particular crimes, parties to crimes, substantive defense to crimes, and various pleadings relating to criminal law and procedure. Constitutional safeguards and procedures from arrest through trial, sentencing, punishment, and appeal are also studied. This course also examines the ethical considerations relating to criminal law and procedure.
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  • PLG 228: Immigration Law for Paralegals

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course will provide an introductory overview of US immigration law with a focus in the paralegal's role in case assembly, compilation, intake, and processing. Students will learn to identify common issues and available benefits associated with processing nonimmigrant and immigrant visa cases to discuss with the Attorney. Students will also gain an overall understanding of both the nonimmigrant and immigrant visa process and US citizenship including the forms, documents, and filing procedures associated with each.
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  • PLG 230: Estates and Trusts

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Enables the student to understand the legal principles involved in estate work and to demonstrate the skills necessary to assist in the preparation and completion of all documents incident to estate practice. Includes a coverage of living wills and various types of trusts as well as probate administration.
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  • PLG 235: Family Law

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides the student with a thorough, working knowledge of the basics of family law. Covers the essentials of family law and the tasks that a paralegal might perform in an active practice, such as client interviewing and coordinating discovery. Entails a study of the various aspects involved in family law including marriage, antenuptial agreements, divorce, spousal and child support, property distribution, divorce proceedings, and adoption. The course materials are supplemented by Pennsylvania specific materials.
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  • PLG 240: Bankruptcy Law

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    The course presents a practical approach to the understanding of bankruptcy law. It will familiarize the student with the bankruptcy code as well as the bankruptcy process. It will approach the bankruptcy process with a practical perspective and "hands-on" approach featuring research and drafting projects.
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  • PLG 245: Legal Research and Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    It involves the understanding of the various sources involved in law. Includes primary and secondary resources. The student will be able to distinguish between binding and persuasive law. The student will combine legal research with legal writing by completing problems and preparing a memorandum of law. Legal writing entails case briefing, drafting a memorandum of law, and review of components of legal correspondence.
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  • PLG 250: Legal Internship

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides the student with hands-on experience while working at a law firm, court house, bank, or other acceptable locale. The student will work a total of 225 hours at the business during the semester as well as attend meetings to discuss job searching skills. Intended to be taken after a majority of the course work is completed. Must be pre-approved by the program coordinator according to deadlines established in internship manual. Paralegal Studies students are responsible for locating and selecting internship placement sites. Students are responsible for presenting credential levels required by the internship site. It is the sole discretion of the internship site and future employers as to what level of credentialing is required by the position roles. Students who possess a "record" status may experience limitations in available internship placements anf future employment in the paralegal field.
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