Paralegal Certificate (PAC)

2017-2018 Business & Administrative Pathway

Certificate, Career & Technical Education and Business Division

Recommended Course Selection Sequence

CPS100	Information Technology and Its Applications	3
PLG101	Introduction to Law and Paralegal Practice	3
PLG102	Legal Research	3
PLG202	Litigation	3
PLG106	Legal Writing	3
PLG201	Estates and Trusts	3
PLG108	Real Estate Law	3
PLG203	Business Organizations	3
PLG205	Computer Applications for the Law Office	3

Total Credit Hours: 27

Program Notes

• Special admissions requirement
• Associates or Bachelors degree required
• Gainful employment information available on website program page.
• Day program
• Summer enrollment required

Campus Information

• Danvers campus based

Additional Graduation Requirements

• Cumulative CLGPA at or above 2.0
• Mathematics proficiency to graduate
• Submit your intent to graduate form www.northshore.edu/registrar/

Advising Notes

This certificate is designed upon completion to prepare a student for entry level employment as a paralegal.

Courses are listed in the recommended order you should take them.

Many courses have prerequisite requirements that must be fulfilled to be eligible to enroll in the course.

Taking classes in the winter intersession and summer can accelerate your time to degree completion.

All student degree audits for graduation purposes will be based off the official program of study the student is enrolled in.