ADMN 2301 - Computers in the Legal Office

Credit hours: 3

Course Description:
Legal Assistance and Office Management examines the legal assistant profession, including duties, responsibilities, employment settings, and skills. Office projects provide an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills to solve challenging and real-life situations involving various types of law. Each project concludes with critical thinking scenarios that reinforce analytical and problem-solving skills.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

Explain the importance of timekeeping and billing, the types of legal fee agreements, and how computers can be used to expedite the timekeeping and billing process.
Demonstrate ability to draft, edit, and print short legal documents by using a word processor and document assembly software.
Demonstrate ability to use case management and docket control programs to manage and control a legal organization’s cases and its tasks to be completed and scheduled.
Understand how to provide litigation support to litigators, including how to build litigation support databases, strategies for searching and extracting information from databases.
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of electronic discovery, an ability to work effectively in an automated courtroom, and the ability to design and execute effective presentations