| source City University of New York (X) |
level |
department Paralegal Studies (X) |
Comprehensive survey of the law and all courses in the Paralegal Studies curriculum. Topics cover the legal profession, its ethical problems; the role of paralegal; and career goals and employment opportunities for paralegals.
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Introduces students to the legal system as it operates in the State of New York, the legal process, and certain basic areas of the law (torts, contracts, property). Roles of the lawyer and paralegal within the legal system especially as they relate to the unauthorized practice of law, fiduciary relationships, and ethical considerations. Students become familiar with specific paralegal skills. They practice and perfect such skills as interviewing techniques, factual investigation and formal and informal advocacy.
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Survey of principal areas of law office management, docket control, calendar monitoring, bookkeeping/accounting systems, functions of the law library and computers in the law office. Students gain understanding of computers, operating systems and programming in the modern law office; overview of other computer applicators for lawyers and paralegals; computer law, hardware and software tailored for law office applications.
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Survey of the legal and economic environment of business, and interrelationship and impact of ethical, social and political influences on individuals and organizations in the study of agency, antitrust, bankruptcy, constitutional, consumer, contract, criminal, and labor laws, and the federal and state court systems.
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Law as it affects work of medical secretarial assistants and paralegals including medical practice acts, legal relationship of physician and patient, professional liability, types of medical practice; preparation of reports for workers' compensation, court litigation.
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Common, statutory and constitutional law; the judicial system; proceedings, civil and criminal, from initiation to enforcement and judgment.
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Introduction to law relating to business organizations: agency; sole proprietorships, partnerships; corporations; government regulation; drafting and research practice; functions of the lawyers and paralegal assistant.
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Focus on legal aspects of marriage, custody and visitation, economic and social aspects of divorce, separation, annulment, antinuptial agreements, contractual relations among members of the family, family court procedures, criminal jurisdiction over minors; drafting and research practice; functions of the lawyer and paralegal assistant. Aspects of criminal, statutory and constitutional law as it affects the juvenile offender.
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Provides understanding of basic distinctions between criminal and civil law; familiarization with criminal justice system; major stages of a criminal case.
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Law of real property and real estate transactions. Analysis of sales, obligations of the real estate broker, surveys, recordings, closings and title searches, mortgages, assignments, consolidation agreements, and mortgage foreclosures. Law of landlord and tenant are extensively reviewed.
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Hands-on course dealing with concepts and techniques of immigration law. Procedures for preparation of immigrant and non-immigrant visa applications; skills necessary to assist immigrants who seek asylum, citizenship, naturalization or employment, or who face exclusion or deportation proceedings. Emphasis on the practice of immigration law from perspective of a paralegal.
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Survey of the law of insurance and the law of torts, especially as they relate to each other: nature and types of insurance, indemnity and subrogation; the insurance contract; defenses against payment to the insured; government regulations; tort liability; intentional torts; negligent torts, litigation; drafting and research practice; functions of the lawyer and paralegal assistant.
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Administrative law and advocacy, agency advocacy, preparation and conduct of administrative hearings, due process rights, and basics of evidence. Procedural rights in public benefit entitlement programs and the rights of the physically and mentally handicapped and the elderly; also procedural rights in housing programs and overview of landlord and tenant law; administrative advocacy and trial advocacy
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This hands on course deals with concepts and techniques used in Housing Court. Students learn strategies for representing tenants against the New York City Housing Authority, rent stabilization and rent control laws and the Jiggetts Preliminary Relief System. Conduct research in housing and welfare law; develop direct and cross-examination skills.
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Requirements, formalities, drafting and execution of wills and trusts, probating wills, intestacy law, administration of wills and estates, preparation of federal estate and inheritance tax returns; transfer tax proceedings under the law of New York State; estate planning.
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How to research legal questions and to present results to supervising attorney. Role of legal research in the process of legal advocacy; historical development and present organization of the Anglo-American legal system, organization and procedures of the New York courts; various tools of legal research and how to use them; skill in researching and answering legal questions in an active law office; skill in organizing and writing legal memoranda.
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Drafting of pleadings and business agreements; law office memoranda; memoranda of law in support of motions; pretrial and memoranda of law; appellate briefs; and use of computer research tools such as WESTLAW or LEXIS. Substantive aspects, with emphasis on the conduct of practical exercises in research and writing. The art of oral advocacy.
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Provides students with an optimal practical experience in the legal field by placing them in various legal environments-law offices or corporate, judicial, or administrative agency-which have shown an interest in sponsoring an intern. The seminar and internship program provides direct contact and utilization of skills and knowledge obtained in the classroom and permits students to practice and perfect those skills in an operating office situation. In addition to satisfying the individual needs of students, this program helps the student crystallize and clarify career goals.
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The student will study the legal system including; the organization of the courts, civil and criminal procedures and an overview of the law of contracts, torts, crimes, and the U.S. constitution. The three legal concentration areas of Family Law, Public and Employee Benefit Law, and Immigration Law will be introduced.
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The student will be familiarized with the concepts of law office organization and administration. The student will learn calendaring and filing systems and will learn to use modern office equipment including facsimile and dictation machines, computers, and telephone systems.
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The student will study basic and advanced research tools and become familiar with legal source materials including Reporters, Statutes, and Codes. The student also becomes acquainted with secondary source materials, including treatises and encyclopedias. Students will be introduced to manual and computer database research guides.
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The student will study and practice the techniques of good legal writing. The student will focus his/her efforts on learning to prepare letters of transmittal to courts and agencies, affidavits, factual summaries, and internal memoranda of law.
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The student will be exposed to the practice of Immigration, Family and/or Public Benefit Law in a legal service, community based organization, or governmental setting. The student will work under the supervision of an attorney or otherwise licensed legal practitioner. The student will perform basic paralegal tasks at various levels of complexity based on his/her interest and ability. The student will spend seven and one half hours per week on-site to be arranged between the student and on-site supervisor. The student will interview clients and prepare legal documents including forms, affidavits, letters of transmittal to governmental agencies, and memoranda of law. The students will meet as a group with an instructor one and one-half hours every third week. In Legal Practicum I, the students will discuss problems with cases they are working on and participate in interviewing and fact gathering exercises.
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The student will study and practice trial and administrative hearing preparation and courtroom techniques. The student will learn to prepare clients and expert witnesses for direct examination, prepare for cross examination and learn to present documentary evidence. The student will learn how to assist an attorney in trial preparation and will participate in a mock administrative hearing.
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The student will continue the activities as in Legal Practicum I at the same site as in Legal Practicum II unless special problems arise necessitating a change. As in Legal Practicum I, the students will meet as a group with their instructor to discuss cases they are working on at their placement. In addition, in Legal Practicum II, the student will participate in trial advocacy training.
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