Certified Paralegal Review
Course
Course Cost: Only
$290! This course includes five afternoons of instructor-led
review with guidance and feedback on practice essays and simulated test
questions. In addition, students in this
review course will not have to pay a testing center “appointment fee” if they
take the exam during the special exam sessions available only to students of
this class -- a savings of over $200!*
This
review course will help prepare you for the Certified Paralegal (CP) exam
offered by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). The
course covers all required areas of the exam.
Effective with the September 2013 exam, all exam candidates take the
same version of the exam.
There
are two simple steps to preparing for the exam:
- Register and pay for
this review course with Phoenix College.
- Register and pay the
examination fees for the Certified Paralegal exam directly with NALA
before 8/1/2013. Everyone must do this. Visit
NALA’s website at www.nala.org for details. Click here for NALA’s application
and for information on the application process.
If you are a paralegal student at an ABA-approved school and will be completing your program in July or August of 2013 then you need a waiver from NALA. Your program director must sign the waiver. Contact NALA to obtain the waiver form.
The
review course meets at Phoenix College
Downtown from 12:30-5:30 p.m. on 07/27/13, 08/03/13, 08/10/13, 08/17/13, and
08/24/13.
Students
are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop so that they can participate in the in-class
practice exercises. The classroom has
electrical power at every seat and wireless Internet is available, although you
do not need Internet access during the course.
The
special exam sessions, available only to students of this course, will be held
on 09/07/13 and 09/14/13. To accommodate all of the students that wish to
take advantage of the special test sessions, there will be two testing periods
on the test dates: One session in the morning and one session in the
afternoon. The particular testing
session students will be assigned to will be determined based on the order of
student registration. Students should
reserve the entire day on 9/07 and 9/14 for testing until they know which test
session they are assigned to. The entire
period of both days is necessary to complete the multi-part exam and includes
breaks between sections.
Due
to recent changes to the exam, the publishers have not yet had time to revise
the book that is typically used. To save
money, we highly recommend that students purchase the electronic version of the
following e-chapters from the textbook: Civil
Litigation, Contracts, Business Organizations, American Legal System, and Legal
Research. The review course provides
plenty of review material for Ethics, Communications, and Judgment &
Analysis and we do not recommend you purchase those chapters unless you just
want to.
To
order, go to http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/search/9781418031978
and order the e-chapters noted above.
The printed version of the book is: CP Review Manual, 3rd Edition, ISBN:
9781418031978. If you decide to purchase
a printed version we recommend you try to find a used version to save
money. The other text we recommend you
obtain is: Certified Paralegal - Mock Examination and Study Guide, 4th
Edition. ISBN: 9781435400269.
To register for the course call 602-223-4000 between 9:00-5:00, Monday through Thursday, and tell them you want to register for the Summer 2013 non-credit class number 12484 - Certified Paralegal Review. For more information email us at: paralegal@phoenixcollege.edu
Phoenix College Downtown · 640 N.
First Avenue · Phoenix, AZ 85003
* As of December 2011, the
standard testing center “appointment fee” for the CP exam at commercial testing
centers is $217.50. Students of this
course that test during our special exam sessions do not have to pay a testing
center “appointment fee.”