Course Objective	Collegewide Student Competency
1. Identify basic computer terminology frequently used in legal organizations.	Think critically
2. Demonstrate ability to draft, edit, and print short legal documents by using a word processor and document assembly software.	Think critically
3. Demonstrate ability to develop short spreadsheets used in the legal environment.	Think critically
4. Explain the importance of timekeeping and billing, the types of legal fee agreements, and how computers can be used to expedite the timekeeping and billing process.	Use current technology effectively
5. Explain how legal and factual researches are done on the Internet.	Use current technology effectively
6. Demonstrate the ability to use Westlaw and/or Lexis to conduct legal research.	Use current technology effectively
7. Explain how the cloud is used in the legal environment, and demonstrate an understanding of security and confidentiality issues related to the electronic transmission of documents/information.	Use current technology effectively
8. Demonstrate ability to use case management and docket control programs to manage and control a legal organization’s cases and its tasks to be completed and scheduled.	Communicate effectively
9. Understand how to provide litigation support to litigators, including how to build litigation support databases, strategies for searching and extracting information from databases.	Communicate effectively
10. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of electronic discovery, an ability to work effectively in an automated courtroom, and the ability to design and execute effective presentations.	Use current technology effectively
11. Earn a legal technology Certificate from the National Society of Legal Technology	Use current technology effectively

Program Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

1. Apply legal drafting and technology skills necessary for any position in a law office, bank, real estate office, government authority, or any position that involves substantive and procedural knowledge and application of law.

2. Demonstrate substantive knowledge and procedural knowledge of law.

3. Apply soft skills, such as working as a team member, critical thinking, communication skills, and ethical decision-making.

4. Apply the rules of professional conduct governing lawyers and their application to paralegals.

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