Legal Secretary

Legal Secretary

Training Program


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Program Overview

Legal secretaries are an essential part of the legal profession and assist with legal departments’ smooth running. The role of a legal secretary is to support the lawyers and paralegals in a law office or organization.  As well as working within law firms, legal secretaries can work within other legal environments.

Legal secretaries perform several essential duties involving but not limited to producing legal documents, completing legal forms, typing professional correspondence from dictation, liaising with clients and responding to enquiries. By working as a legal secretary, you will get to know a wide range of legal procedures and build up experience in several different areas..

Course Offerings

  • Variety of dates/times offered throughout the year

Course schedule

Course Code Course Name
POFL 1003 Legal Office Procedures I
POFL 1005 Legal Terminology and the American Legal System

Admission requirements

  • Students must be 18 years of age
  • High school diploma/GED NOT required

PROGRAM COST

Tuition - Total cost $330 ($165 per course)
Textbooks: 

  • The Legal Secretary Guide by cordy Paschall, E-BOOK
  • Master Legal Vocabulary and Terminology ISBN: 978-1791849597

Register for Continuing Education courses here

Page last updated January 6, 2023.

Contact Information

Continuing Education
101 Baldwin Blvd.
Corpus Christi, TX 78404

(361) 698-1328

Location:
3209 S. Staples St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78411