Legal Administrative Assistant

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Overview

If you have a high attention to detail, and are looking for a solid career in the legal field, choose this program to prepare to be a legal administrative assistant, legal receptionist, or legal secretary. Employment choices are many for highly-skilled workers in this field. BTC’s Legal Administrative Assistant Program will provide you a wide range of skills to use with employers such as law firms, government offices, real estate firms, and corporate offices.

Program Outcomes

After successfully completing this program, students will be able to:

• Type 35 words per minute with no more than four errors on a three-minute timed writing.
• Apply legal terminology and knowledge of legal resources to produce and analyze legal documents.
• Produce accurate business documents in a variety of file formats using computer technology and applying editing and language skills.
• Use a spreadsheet program to solve business problems using formulas, functions, lists, and charts.
• Analyze, calculate, and interpret financial data.
• Apply techniques for managing time, records, and meetings in an office environment.
• Use Microsoft Outlook to create electronic messages and contacts, manage multiple calendars, and track tasks.
• Apply communication and interpersonal skills while providing effective administrative support in a legal office environment.

Find important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended this program: www.btc.edu/GE

Placement Requirements

Admissions application and assessment testing in Reading, Math, and Sentence Skills are required. Your score on the test and/or your previous transcripts will determine where you begin your course sequence. Contact Admissions at 360.752.8345 or at admissions@btc.edu for assistance with academic planning.

Degree and Certificate Requirements

Legal Administrative Assistant Degree and Certificate completion requires a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher and minimum grade of C/2.0 for all courses.

Programs

• Legal Administrative Assistant, AAS

• Legal Administrative Assistant, AAS-T

• Legal Administrative Assistant Certificate

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