Certified Paralegal Review Course – Winter 2018
Course
Cost: Only $295! This course includes six afternoons of instructor-led
review with guidance and feedback on practice writing assignments and simulated
test questions. Students must separately
register, and pay, for the exam directly with NALA. Students in this review course can then take
the exam at Phoenix College on special, designated testing days. This special testing opportunity is for
students in this review course only.
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.
There
are two 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.
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.
The
review course is open to everyone.
Paralegal students at Phoenix College must have completed their program by the end of the December 2018 semester to be eligible to take the exam in January
of 2019. If you are still taking classes
in spring (January-May) of 2019 to complete your paralegal program then you
cannot take the test in January/February of 2019 but instead will take it
during the next testing period.
The
exam consists of two portions: Knowledge
portion (multiple choice/true-false type questions over several substantive
legal areas) and Skills portion (a written exercise).
The
review sessions for the Knowledge portion of the exam will meet from 12:30-5:30
pm on the following days: 12/1/18, 12/8/18, 12/15/18, 1/5/19, 1/12/19. The exam for the Knowledge portion will be
from 9:00 a.m. to Noon on 1/26/19.
Examinees receive their pass/fail results immediately upon completing
the Knowledge portion of the exam. NALA
requires examines to pass the Knowledge portion before they can take the Skills
portion. Examinees that do not pass the
Knowledge portion can retest for that portion after 90 days.
For
those that pass the Knowledge portion on the morning of 1/26/19, a review
session for the Skills portion will be held from 1:00-3:30 that same day
(1/26). In the review for the Skills
portion, students will learn about the structure and strategy for taking the
Skills portion of the exam. Over the
following four weeks, those that will be taking the Skills portion will work
independently doing several practice skills assignments that they will submit
via Canvas to the faculty for review and feedback. This will help them practice and prepare for
the Skills portion of the exam.
The
Skills portion of the exam will be from 9:00-Noon on February 23, 2019. The location for the course will be at Phoenix
College, E-Building, Room 201.
Review Course Material:
The textbook for the course is the Certified Paralegal Review Manual, Custom Edition, ISBN #: 9780357122921. This is a custom
hard-copy edition and is available only at the Phoenix College Bookstore. This is a custom version of the THIRD edition
of this book and this custom edition has only the chapters needed for the
exam. You may be able to find used
copies or other eBook rentals of the original THIRD edition; that will also work
but those can be harder to find. Click here for
Information about where to get the book.
We do not recommend that you
get any
other edition because it may not have what you need.
To
register call 602-285-7222, Monday-Thursday,
8:00-5:00, and tell them you would like to register for the WINTER 2018 non-credit class number 40411 -
Certified Paralegal Review. Payment
is due upon registration. For more information email us at: paralegal@phoenixcollege.edu and
include your student number in any email message.