STUDY GUIDE
Your weekly workload
Proposed 900-clock-hour program: 45 instructional weeks at 20 hours per week. Delivery-hour validation and applicable authorization are pending. No transferable college credit or guaranteed NALA examination eligibility is represented.
Every week totals 20 hours. Instruction and practice include the existing six-hour core, three hours of guided instruction, three hours of source workshop, two hours of feedback/revision, and applied projects. The original labs and capstone occupy the remaining hours shown below. No activity is counted twice. Program total: 900 hours (360 existing + 540 expanded).
| Week / topic | Instruction & practice | Labs | Capstone | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Professional Roles and Workplace Judgment | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 2. Business Communication | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 3. Digital Documents and Accessibility | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 4. Scheduling and Deadline Controls | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 5. Records and Information Handling | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 6. Spreadsheets and Billing Basics | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 7. Client Intake and Service | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 8. Office Workflows | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 9. Meetings and Coordination | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 10. Quality Assurance | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 11. Career Preparation | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 12. Administrative Capstone | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 13. Legal Office Roles and Ethics | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 14. Legal Terminology and Court Systems | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 15. Legal Intake and Case Organization | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 16. Legal Document Production | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 17. Docketing and Procedural Research | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 18. Legal Administrative Capstone | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 19. Legal Research Foundations | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 20. Research Validation And Legal Citation | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 21. Legal Analysis And Writing | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 22. Civil Litigation Foundations | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 23. Discovery And Evidence Organization | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 24. Contracts And Business Records | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 25. Family-Law Support | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 26. Estates And Probate Support | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 27. Practice Technology And Responsible AI | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 28. Professional Responsibility Workshop | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 29. Supervised Paralegal Project Development | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 30. Paralegal Capstone Review | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 31. U.S. Legal Foundations, Remedies & Administrative Law | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 32. Federal Civil Procedure | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 33. Evidence & Alternative Dispute Resolution | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 34. Contracts | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 35. Business Organizations & Commercial Law | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 36. Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 37. Real Estate & Property Law | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 38. Torts | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 39. Estates, Trusts, Wills & Probate | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 40. Debtor/Creditor Law & Bankruptcy | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 41. Professional & Ethical Responsibility | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 42. Legal Writing Under Time Constraints | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 43. Critical Thinking & Integrated Legal Analysis | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 44. Knowledge-Exam Simulation & Remediation | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 45. Skills Simulation & Final Readiness | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
View all 45 expanded activities, hour allocations and evidence requirements. Scheduled breaks are outside the 45 instructional weeks. Instructors must validate durations and permitted distance-learning activities before enrollment. Actual completed hours require verified participation; logins and planned allocations do not award hours. Optional study and external certification testing are excluded.
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