Legal Assisting

Online legal program helps you become a legal assistant

Our online Legal Assisting program will provide you with online legal assistant training and the skills and knowledge necessary to begin a career as a legal assistant. You will train to become a crucial member of a law firm team with the skills to investigate case facts, organize information, prepare written reports and draft contracts. The curriculum also provides a solid foundation in legal definitions and jargon, dictation, transcription, customer service skills, and confidentiality procedures.

Qualified legal assistants are needed in almost every field imaginable and often specialize in such diverse areas as government, medical, real estate, family/estate planning, litigation or corporate law. Legal assistants are projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics therefore online legal assistant training is a great option. Some employment growth stems from law firms and other employers with legal staffs increasingly hiring legal assistants to lower the cost and increase the availability and efficiency of legal services.

Graduates with an online legal assisting certificate will be prepared for entry-level employment as legal assistants and administrative assistants in a legal environment. With additional work experience and/or training, you may qualify for advancement to such positions as legal research assistants and paralegals.