Law/Paralegal - LAW

(Legal Specialty course) Law related to estate planning issues. Includes procedure to distribute a person's estate upon one's death; creation and administration of a trust and procedure to appoint another to act on one's behalf. Also includes a discussion of health care documents and related elderly care issues.

(Legal Specialty course) This course will provide a basic knowledge of bankruptcy law, with emphasis on understanding the schedules, preparing proofs of claims and motion practice within the bankruptcy court.

(Legal Specialty course) A survey of corporate, partnership and agency law. Discussion of some types of employment law. The drafting of corporate and partnership agreements will also be covered.

(Legal Specialty course) Covers interviewing skills, fact pattern analysis, discovery preparation and evidence. Emphasis is placed on preparation of documents throughout the court process.

(Legal Specialty course) Covers the relationship between the attorney, client and legal assistant. Discusses what a legal assistant may and may not do. Also discusses conflicts of interest, dealing with witnesses and adverse parties and confidentiality.

(Legal Specialty course) Covers legal research and terminology. The student will become familiar with the law library and develop legal research skills through the use of legal digests, encyclopedias, reporter systems, indexes, Shepard's, treatises, cases, statutes, legal periodicals, government documents and other research material. Emphasis is placed on developing legal briefing skills and finding answers to legal research questions.

(Legal Specialty course) Covers the law related to family issues. Includes a discussion of rights and obligations of parties to each other and their offspring. Divorce, custody and support, spousal agreements, termination of parental rights, adoptions and collection of child support are all discussed.

(Legal Specialty course) Emphasis on jurisdiction of the court system in Nevada. Discussion of complaints, summons, answers, supplemental pleadings. Will also cover pretrial tactics, motions, exceptions, venue, discovery, depositions and summary judgments.

(Legal Specialty course) An overview of tort law. Concepts to be discussed include intentional torts, strict liability, negligence, proximate cause, re ipsa loquitur, comparative responsibility, premises liability, product liability, professional negligence and worker's compensation.

(Legal Specialty course) Relationship and delineation of the function and responsibility of the legal assistant, the attorney and the client; survey of substantive areas of the law; structure of the legal system; basic legal terminology; ethics and liability of the legal profession.