Paralegal (Associate's)

Join a profession that is ranked among the fastest-growing occupations in the United States! There is a growing need for legal assistants and paralegals in the legal profession. They continue to assume a growing range of tasks and perform many of the same jobs as lawyers.

The program prepares future Legal Assistants and Paralegals to carry out tasks such as:

  • Researching legal issues
  • Drafting legal documents
  • Preparing pleadings
  • Summarizing documents
  • Organizing trial notebooks
  • Interviewing clients

Learn fundamental knowledge about the formation of contracts, breach of contracts, and remedies for the breach of contracts. Become familiar with the terminology, policies and procedures applied to: estate planning, wills, trusts, estate taxes, estate sales, and joint tenancy.

The Associate in Science Degree in Legal Assistant/Paralegal provides you with the skills to interview, gather, review, and analyze factual situations; research the law; prepare and interpret legal documents; conduct day-to-day operations of a legal office.

Paralegals may not provide legal services directly to the public, except as permitted by law. The Phoenix and Mesa campuses of Everest College Phoenix are the only Everest College campuses offering an ABA approved paralegal program.

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