Communications and Case Management

Catalog description

This course covers two subjects of importance to the paralegal. First, this course seeks to impart knowledge of general psychological principles and skills in applying that knowledge to social and organizational situations. In addition, these skills will be developed through exercises involving real world scenarios that will be common to the experience of the paralegal in their profession. Second, this course seeks to inform students how a law office is managed in its many aspects from maintaining client confidences to ethically and legally accounting for client trust funds. This information will be crucial to the paralegal to inform them about how law practices differ from the conduct of other businesses.