Casper College offers two degrees in the Legal Assistant Department and prepares its students for transfer to bachelor programs. We also offer a post bachelor's Legal Assistant Certificate. Our research courses provide our students with legal research skills, fact investigation skills, and computer assisted legal research skills with Westlaw. Other courses provide students with skills in digesting depositions, organizing case files, and drafting of discovery documents, wills, contracts, corporation forms, and family law documents. Students also organize a trial notebook, interview expert witnesses, research evidentiary issues, draft a settlement brochure, prepare a medical chronology, and draft jury instructions. Our students are assisted in job placement through a job search seminar and internships.

Students are encouraged to take the C.L.A. Exam (Certified Legal Assistant Exam) which is offered three times a year at Casper College. A review course is offered each fall to prepare for this exam. The C.L.A. credential is a requirement for many jobs and is a nationally recognized credential.

Specifics on the Casper College Legal Assistant Program. (PDF document)

Note: Legal assistant and paralegal are used interchangeably in the profession.

Paralegal Studies

Associate of Applied Science degree

Paralegal Studies

Associate of Arts degree

Paralegal Studies

Certificate

Paralegal

For more information contact:
Social & Behavorial Science
307-268-2368
307-268-3024 - fax