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• LAWS 180: Business Organizations: Paralegal

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides an overview of corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietorships in businesses. Students also learn the court procedures and tax implications associated with sole proprietorships, corporations or partnerships. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better)
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• LAWS 205: Paralegal Trial Procedure and Practices

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  Using a realistic case file, the student works through the intense trial advocacy process from conceptualizing the trial, including strategy and tactics, preparing a trial notebook, filing pretrial motions, and performing exercises exploring procedural and evidentiary issues. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) and LAWS140 (C or better)
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• LAWS 210: Real Estate Law and Conveyancing

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course addresses various topics in real estate law, including estates, titles, acquisition, agreements of sale, encumbrances, conveyancing, and bonds. Other topics include liens, deeds, and mortgages. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better)
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• LAWS 215: Advanced Real Estate Law

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  In this course, students examine advanced real estate law and the documents used in sophisticated residential and commercial transactions with concentration on financing, option contracts, title insurance, zoning, and the vocabulary of these advance transactions. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) and LAW210 (C or better)
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• LAWS 220: Legal Research and Writing I

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides an introduction to the tools used in legal research including statutes, cases, treaties, encyclopedia and computer search techniques. Students research actual case problems and prepare written memorandum of law. Students also learn how to file research materials and use state and federal legal reporter services. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) AND EITHER COMP110 (C or better) OR MGMT135 (C or better)
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• LAWS 225: Legal Research and Writing II

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course emphasizes the systematic study of electronic legal research and critical analysis of legal issues, location, and evaluation of appropriate legal authority and application of such authority to the resolution of hypothetical factual situations. Students learn how to prepare persuasive presentations in acceptable legal format. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) AND LAWS220 (C or better)
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• LAWS 235: Bankruptcy

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides an overview of the federal bankruptcy law, its purposes and procedures, with special emphasis on asset liquidation, business reorganization, and individual income rehabilitation plans. Other topics include the relationship of debtor, creditor and trustee, ethics, litigation, and the collection process. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better)
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• LAWS 240: Tort Law for the Paralegal

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides an overview of tort law including intentional torts, personal injury, negligence law and strict liability. Students learn how to prepare legal pleadings and discovery materials. Other topics include ethics, and trial preparation. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) AND LAWS140 (C or better)
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• LAWS 255: Ethics for the Paralegal

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course examines ethical requirements under the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct and the National Federation of Paralegal Associations. Specific topics include attorney regulation, and paralegals, the unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, advertising, solicitation, fees, client funds, competency and professionalism. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) and LAWS140 (C or better)
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• LAWS 260: Computers in the Law Office

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course provides a general introduction to the use of computers and legal specialty computer software programs in the modern law office. Students use hands on computer exercises using professional software programs frequently used by paralegals, including billing software, spreadsheets and litigation support software. Prerequisite:    LAWS100 (C or better) AND CISC100 (C or better) OR CISC110 (C or better)
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