Legal Office Specialist

• Award: Certificate
• Credits: 27
• Delivery: Land/Campus
• WIA certified: YES
• Emphases: N/A

MCTC's Legal Office Specialist program will provide you with the skills and proficiencies required to work in modern law offices, legal departments of corporations, government offices, legal aid offices and courts. The coursework will develop your skills for processing legal documents, understanding legal terminology and documentation, working with legal software applications, executing law office procedures, keeping records, billing, becoming aware of applicable policies and regulations for the Minnesota legal system, and comprehending professional standards and ethics. Where You Could Work, Court systems' Private legal offices and firms' Federal, state, and local government offices' Administrative agencies' Corporate legal departments' Real-estate offices' Legal transcription services' General offices Note: This program is the result of a unique partnership with the 12 largest Downtown Minneapolis law firms. Representatives from these law offices assisted with the creation of the curriculum for this award and are seeking qualified graduates of this program. Students are accepted into this program for fall and spring.