Program Highlights
The Legal Administrative Assistant Certificate program provides training in traditional administrative skills and legal procedures.
In the program, you will learn about civil and family litigation, wills and probate, corporate law, conveyancing and mortgaging from instructors with backgrounds in the legal industry.
CapU's Legal Administrative Assistant program has three ways to study:
- a full-time onsite option (September intake);
- a full-time online option (January intake); and
- a part-time online option (September intake).
The full-time onsite option, which has two terms, offers in-class tutorials and hands-on training with software and books used in the legal industry.
The full-time online option, which has two terms, offers class tutorials via MS Teams or Zoom, hands-on training with software and books used in the legal industry.
The part-time online option is six terms long (two years) and there is one intake in September. This program option offers the same training as the onsite option, but in an online format and with just two courses per term (not including the practicum in the final term).
You'll also gain real-world experience through a two-week practicum placement in a private law firm or government agency.
The School of Legal Studies team will help you with your application, ensuring you know which documents are required and how to complete our admissions testing.
- Apply communication, problem solving and conflict resolution skills towards an organization’s overall effectiveness.
- Effectively communicate in writing by composing business correspondence and legal documents.
- Demonstrate proficiency working with IBM compatible software to produce a variety of correctly formatted legal documents from written and digitally recorded material.
- Apply analytical skills to correctly identify and prepare documents for litigation, Wills creation and probating, Family Law, Corporate Law, Securities and basic conveyancing.
- Demonstrate computation skills through the creation of legal accounts and Vendor’s and Purchaser’s statements of adjustment.
- Demonstrate appropriate work ethic and entry-level job skills during a two week practicum placement with a law firm or government agency.
Admission Requirements
English language requirements
English is the language of instruction at CapU. All applicants are required to demonstrate competence in the English language prior to admission.
If English is not your first language or you’ve received your education in a language other than English, you must meet our English Language Requirements.
Basic requirements
- High school graduation
Program-specific requirements
- Resume
- Letter of reference
- LGST English Diagnostic Test (minimum score of 31/50 is required)
- Keyboarding test (minimum 45 wpm touch typing)
Additional information
- LGST English Diagnostic and Keyboarding tests must be completed at an Information Session or invigilated online
Program Requirements
Total program credits: 33.00