Mar 28, 2019 2:00:00 PM
If you are not capitalizing on your college career services department, you should.
Bridging the gap between education and employment involves more than just firing off a killer cover letter and resume to every firm advertising a prospective job opening. Career counseling helps graduates develop career goals and job search strategies, summarize training and qualifications, perfect communication skills and prepare for interviews.
Topics: graduates and alumni, career, featured
Mar 14, 2019 10:00:00 AM
Are you evaluating your current professional status? In a period of transition? Facing a job setback? Seeking new opportunities?
Topics: career, education and training, featured
Feb 25, 2019 2:00:00 PM
The paralegal profession relies heavily on communication. Writing competency for those who enter the profession is essential. Paralegals gather information and prepare a wide range of documents required to support, verify and complete a variety of legal transactions. Everything they draft - every correspondence they send - must be specifically tailored in a comprehensive and informative way that leaves no room for misrepresentation.
Law firms place a high value on writing skills when hiring paralegals, so it is common practice for a writing test to be requested during the interview phase. A writing test will typically measure a candidate’s ability to:
Topics: career, paralegal skills, education and training, featured
Feb 7, 2019 2:42:33 PM
I returned to Center for Advanced Legal Studies (CALS) in July 2018 after a 10-year absence. In that decade, technological advances have re-shaped our program and content delivery giving students more choices for how they obtain their credentials. Learning still takes place in the classroom, but these days it can be completely virtual. Distance education and online platforms that were just emerging in 2009 have become mainstream.
What hasn’t changed? The paralegal profession is still strong!
Topics: career, education and training, featured
Feb 5, 2019 7:25:00 AM
When people think about a law career, their first thought is often of lawyers and judges. We often see these professionals dramatically depicted in popular films and TV shows as they question witnesses, uncover evidence, and cast verdicts. But you'd be mistaken if you thought the legal profession was limited to judges and attorneys. Paralegals make up a significant sector of careers in the law field, assisting attorneys every step of the way.
Topics: career, education and training
