Proficiency with Legal Documents

Course Code: LAWS 157

Academic Year: 2024-2025

This course will develop the student's skill to prepare, proofread, and edit legal correspondence and documents to the standards appropriate for the legal profession. The student will receive instruction and develop best practices and techniques in the application of listening, language usage, spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting and proofreading skills. The student will be introduced to the process of using digital media to create and edit documents and/or transcribe legal correspondence and documents using BigHand and Microsoft Word 2016 software.