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  • PLG 230: Estates and Trusts

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Enables the student to understand the legal principles involved in estate work and to demonstrate the skills necessary to assist in the preparation and completion of all documents incident to estate practice. Includes a coverage of living wills and various types of trusts as well as probate administration.
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  • PLG 235: Family Law

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides the student with a thorough, working knowledge of the basics of family law. Covers the essentials of family law and the tasks that a paralegal might perform in an active practice, such as client interviewing and coordinating discovery. Entails a study of the various aspects involved in family law including marriage, antenuptial agreements, divorce, spousal and child support, property distribution, divorce proceedings, and adoption. The course materials are supplemented by Pennsylvania specific materials.
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  • PLG 240: Bankruptcy Law

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    The course presents a practical approach to the understanding of bankruptcy law. It will familiarize the student with the bankruptcy code as well as the bankruptcy process. It will approach the bankruptcy process with a practical perspective and "hands-on" approach featuring research and drafting projects.
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  • PLG 245: Legal Research and Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Involves the understanding of the various sources involved in law. Includes primary and secondary resources. The student will be able to distinguish binding or persuasive law. The student will combine legal research with legal writing by completing problems and preparing of a memorandum of law. Legal writing entails case briefing, drafting a memorandum of law, and review of components of legal correspondence. Utilizes the law library at Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas.
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  • PLG 250: Legal Internship

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides the student with hands-on experience while working at a law firm, court house, bank, or other acceptable locale. The student will work a total of 225 hours at the business during the semester as well as attend meetings to discuss job searching skills. Intended to be taken after a majority of the course work is completed. Must be pre-approved by the program coordinator according to deadlines established in internship manual. Paralegal Studies students are responsible for locating and selecting internship placement sites. Students are responsible for presenting credential levels required by the internship site. It is the sole discretion of the internship site and future employers as to what level of credentialing is required by the position roles. Students who possess a "record" status may experience limitations in available internship placements anf future employment in the paralegal field.
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  • PLG 252: Virtual Para. Law Practice Exp

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course will provide the student with a virtual paralegal experience working at a law firm. The student will work a total of 120 hours at the virtual law firm during the semester as well as attend meetings to discuss job searching skills. Intended to be taken after a majority of the coursework is completed. Must be pre-approved by the program coordinator according to deadlines. Students who possess a "record" status may experience limitations in future employment in the paralegal field.
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  • PLG 255: Legal Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Legal writing skills are reinforced through various assignments. Students draft case briefs, complaints, answers, discovery demands, motions, and various types of legal correspondence. Legal research is utilized to respond to fact simulation that results in a memorandum of law. Grammar competency is expected.
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  • PSC 130: Intro to Political Science

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Course considers philosophy and development of contemporary political ideologies. Institutions of modern governments are compared and analyzed. Philosophical, behavioral, institutional, and historical approaches to the study of political science are examined to study the discipline as a science.
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  • PSC 141: American Federal Government

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    The functions of the United States Government under the Constitution are stressed to illustrate the federal concept of government generally. Included among the topics studied are problems and advantages of federalism; civil liberties and civil rights; law making; public opinion and elections; interest groups and political parties; the three branches of government; the increasing activities of the Federal Government; and some comparisons and contrast of the American governmental system with contemporary foreign governments.
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  • PSC 142: State and Local Government

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    A study of the organization and functions of state and local governments as exemplified in Pennsylvania and their place in our federal system. Topics studied include state, county, township, borough and city government; metropolitan cooperative/consolidation efforts; special purpose districts; and the contributions that active citizens can make in their state and communities.
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