Paralegal or legal assistant is a distinguishable person who assists attorneys
in the delivery of legal services. Through formal education, training and
experience, legal assistant has knowledge and expertise regarding the legal
system and substantive and procedural law which qualify them to do work of a
legal nature under the supervision of an attorney. In the United States, there
are more than 120,000 paralegals that have received paralegal certificates that
do tasks and become vital members of the legal community. Paralegal are either
hired by lawyers, law firms, corporations, governmental agency, or other groups
of the same manner. Paralegals, as a legal assistant have limited task. They
could mot represent a client in court not give legal advice. They cannot set fee
or accept a case. In short paralegals cannot assume the duties that are set for
legal officers only. However, paralegals can perform tasks under the supervision
of the attorney. These can be, but not limited to, conducting client interview
without bridging the gap between paralegal and attorney. Paralegals can also
conduct survey, investigations, and research whether statistical or documentary.
Paralegals can also summarize depositions, interrogatories and testimony. They
can also attend hearings and trial with the attorney. And with legal assistance,
paralegals can author and sign correspondence but does not include legal
opinions.But becoming must have a formal education about the profession. The
Associate Degree Programs, Bachelor Degree Programs, and Masters Degree Program
are some of this. There is also what we can the Certificate Program that is
offered to various educational institutions that can be between 16-60 semester
units. Some educational institutions accept student and afterward award
paralegal certificates to those who finished at least three semesters in college
or 36 units credits. There are also eight courses in legal studies to finish
before a paralegal certificate can be given. These are Business Law, Family Law,
Introduction to Civil Procedures, Introduction to Criminal Law, Bankruptcy, Real
Estate Law, Legal Research and Writing, and Legal Ethics. Upon completion of the
course, but before the awarding of paralegal certificate, the individual is not
yet to be called paralegal, because the paralegal certificate can be obtained by
standards set by the American Bar Association. The standard requires completion
of the Certified Legal Assistant certifying (CLA) examination of the National
Association of Legal Assistants. The school that award paralegal certificate
should have American Bar Association approved program of study for legal
assistants. The candidate should first graduate from a course of study for legal
assistants which is institutionally accredited but not ABA approved, and which
requires not less than the equivalent of 60 semester hours of classroom study.In
addition, a paralegal certificate can be obtained he the candidate graduated
from a course of study for legal assistants, other than those set forth in (2)
and (3) above, plus not less than six months of in-house training as a legal
assistant. He or she should also have an attained baccalaureate degree in any
field with an "in-house training as a legal assistant" not lower than six
months. Achieving all these, paralegal certificate is ready to be given. About
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