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LSP 105W - Law Office Management

Credits: 1
Provides an overview of the day to day operations in a legal environment. Addresses various roles, responsibilities, and problems found in the management of a law office or other legal environment. Uses a hands-on approach to address an industry-level working knowledge of a legal business or organization.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 111  or OAT 151  with a minimum grade of "C"
Corequisite(s): None
Lecture Hours: 15 Lab Hours: 0
Meets MTA Requirement: None
Pass/NoCredit: Yes

Outcomes and Objectives
  1. Demonstrate a cursory knowledge of the various principles connected to the management of a law office.
    1. Apply real world applications appropriate to a legal environment.
    2. Demonstrate the basic conceptes of the technologies found in legal environments.
    3. Utilize a file management system for optimal legal records maintenance.
    4. Select creative solutions to day-to-day management problems in a legal environment.
    5. Demonstrate a basic understanding of a legal environments accounting concerns.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
    1. Communicate ideas clearly through either formal or informal written assignments, formal presentations, or group discussions and debates.
    2. Develop skills to effectively communicate with a diverse group of people.
  3. Use writing tasks that involve both reading and writing.
    1. Demonstrate the ability to derive meaning from a piece of writing.
    2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish between the meaning one makes of a text and the author's intended meaning.
    3. Interpret reading and writing tasks in such a way as to invest them with personal significance, thereby creating ways to make reading and writing vital activities in a lifetime of learning.
    4. Demonstrate critical thinking skills.
    5. Understand the relationship among language, knowledge, and power.



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