Curriculum

Crash Course:
Certificate of Paralegal Competency
Institute of Continuing Legal Studies & Education (86 units or 19 months)

• First Semester
  
  • Introduction to the Paralegal Profession and the Philippine Legal and Judicial System (Paralegal 1) -- 3 units
    
  • Overview of Philippine Laws I (Law 1) -- 5 units
    
  • Legal Hermeneutics and Legal Philosophy (Paralegal 2) -- 2 units
    
  • Legal Forms, Conveyance and Document Authentication (Paralegal 3) -- 3 units
    
  • Methods of Research and Legal Bibliographies (Paralegal 4) -- 3 units
    
  • Law Office Management I (Paralegal 5) -- 3 units
    
  • Refresher / Remedial English (Grammar, Composition, Syntax and Style / Topography), non-credit -- (3 units)
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    22 units
    
   
  
• Second Semester
  
  • Overview of Philippine Law II (Law 2) -- 5 units
    
  • Obligations and Contracts (Law 3) -- 3 units
    
  • Property and Land Registration (Law 4) -- 3 units
    
  • Corporations and Partnerships and Other Commercial Laws (Law 5) -- 3 units
    
  • Remedial Law I, Rules of Procedure in Civil and Criminal cases and before quasi-judicial bodies (Law 6) -- 5 units
    
  • Ethics of the Paralegal Profession (Paralegal 6) -- 2 units
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    21 units
    
   
  
• Summer
  
  • Computer and Electronic Research (Paralegal 7) -- 3 units
    
  • Legal Writing (Paralegal 8) -- 5 units
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    8 units
    
   
  
• Third Semester
  
  • Introduction to Accounting for Paralegals (Paralegal 9) -- 3 units
    
  • Criminal Law (Law 7) -- 3 units
    
  • Persons, Family Relations and Successions (Law 8) -- 3 units
    
  • Political and Administrative Law (Law 9) -- 3 units
    
  • The Laws on Commercial and Investment Banking and on the Securities Markets (Law 10) -- 3 units
    
  • Labor and Social Legislation (Law 11) -- 3 units
    
  • Law Office Management II (Paralegal 10) -- 3 units
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    21 units
    
   
  
• Fourth Semester
  
  • Practicum I, Pleading Writing (Paralegal 11) -- 5 units
    
  • Practicum II, Legal Research (Paralegal 12) -- 5 units
    
  • Practicum III, Jurisprudence Evaluation and Trial Practice (Paralegal 13) -- 5 units
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    15 units
    
   
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  Total units, Paralegal subjects -- 44 units
  Total units, Law subjects -- 39 units
  Total units, refresher English course -- 3 units
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  Total units -- 86 units