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eDiscovery for Paralegals
with Center for Legal Studies
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere. You can work at your own pace.
This introductory 7-week course is for those entering the eDiscovery field, as well as professionals wanting to broaden their knowledge of the eDiscovery process. Course covers the entire eDiscovery process, from preparation to collection, to review of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Learners will progress through the basics of eDiscovery prep, best practices for ESI collection, and the review process.
Books Approximate Cost: $150
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Employment Law Certificate
with Center for Legal Studies
This class is an online course. This can be taken anytime, anywhere. You can work at your own pace.
Employment law is a branch of contract law that deals with relationships between employers and employees. This course will cover statutes such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Railway Labor Act, and other various statutes dealing with public employees. Topics to be included are master and servant, wages and hours, anti-discrimination in employment, and minimum wages and maximum hours, as well as regulation of working conditions.
Books Approximate Cost: $250
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Legal Nurse Consultant Training Course
with Center for Legal Studies
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere. You can work at your own pace.
This exciting program prepares medical professionals for a career in the legal field as legal nurse consultants. Building on your medical education and possible clinical experience, this course provides nurses with the fundamental skills necessary to advise law firms, health care providers, insurance companies, and governmental agencies regarding medically related issues and to appear in court as expert witnesses. The course teaches legal concepts related to the healthcare industry, as well as the role a legal nurse consultant might play in litigation areas such as medical malpractice, toxic torts, product liability, personal injury, wrongful death, criminal law, and workers’ compensation. Any nurse interested in entering the legal field can benefit from the education provided by this course. The course is also open to anyone interested in the field of forensic testimony and medical-legal issues, but participants without a nursing background might not be able to take the LNCC exam after graduation. Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC) is a discretionary test separate from this training course that experienced registered nurses graduating from this course may decide to sit for. LNCC test eligibility requirements are discussed during this training course; however, nurses graduating from this course need not take the LNCC to practice as legal nurse consultants.
This nurse continuing professional development activity was approved by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Successful graduates will receive a certificate for 42 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development from CLS by Barbri that they may be able to use to fulfill continuing education requirements.
Books Approximate Cost: $275
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Personal Injury for Paralegals
with Center for Legal Studies
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere. You can work at your own pace.
Personal injury law is a specialized area of litigation that calls for the right specialized training. Our Injury for Paralegals Course will prepare you to plan an integral role in every case from intake and pre-litigations to trial preparation and settlement. You will learn many of the legal terms, causes of action, and remedies available to victims of personal injury accidents. A review of the negligence theory of torts upon which many personal injury claims are based is provided. Students also will discuss interviewing, investigating and other case-building techniques vital to a personal injury paralegal’s success in the law office. Class discussions and lesson material will include the different kinds of personal injury claims, including (but not limited to) car accidents, slips and falls, medical negligence/malpractice, manufacturer product defects, and class-action lawsuits. Discover the basic categories of damages recovery, statutes of limitations, and schemes for liability.
Books: Approximate Cost - $250
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Advanced Legal Research & Writing
with Center for Legal Studies
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
This exciting course is designed to teach advanced and specialized approaches to utilize the legal resources available in a law library, and elsewhere. The conceptual differences between computer-assisted legal research and hard-copy research will be taught. You will also learn how to formulate WESTLAW search queries and effectively and efficiently use WESTLAW and other online legal research methods as time-saving devices in legal research and legal writing. This course is designed to examine more thoroughly advanced and specialized approaches to utilizing the legal sources available in the law library and online. Successful graduates of this non-credit course will be awarded a Certificate of Completion from the college or university of their choice.
Lesson 1: Legal Authorities and Citations
Lesson 2: Legal Analysis
Lesson 3: Westlaw© online legal research
Lesson 4: The Legal Memorandum of Law
Lesson 5: Manual Legal Research
Lesson 6: Types of Legal Writing Course Objectives
How to conduct manual legal research. How to conduct electronic legal research. How to find, interpret, and use various types of legal authorities. How to share with legal authorities. How to write a legal analysis. How to draft a Memorandum of Law. How to briefcase opinions How to engage in various types of legal writing, participants will be expected to complete reading and homework assignments and will be assigned an advanced legal research project and legal writing assignment. Final research and writing projects will be presented for grading to the instructor or CLS by Barbri as a prerequisite of course completion.
PREREQUISITE: Students must have completed the core Paralegal Certificate Course or have one year of paralegal experience before enrolling in this course.
Books Approximate Cost: $400
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Managers
with LERN U Got Class
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Explore most businesses' financial concepts and accounting processes and get practical techniques to increase effectiveness. Understand the seven steps in the accounting cycle and use financial information in decision-making.
For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Adobe Illustrator Essentials
with LERN U Got Class
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified. This class can be taken up to one week past the class start date.
Draw shapes and design logos, flyers, posters, banners, business cards, or any other vector graphics for print or web. Set up a print document and use various tools to draw, type, and color all kinds of shapes and illustrations. Manage layers and artboards, and create print-ready PDF documents.
For full details, see: https://yougotclass.org/Index.cfm/Sanford
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org
Advanced Marketing Concepts
with LERN U Got Class
This is an online course. This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.
Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.
Acquire expertise in R, F & M Analysis. Understand the 80/20 Principle. Better know the impact of price on sales. Take your knowledge of marketing to a new level. These concepts are what the best marketers use for designing marketing strategies that improve performance and return. Gaining these advanced marketing concepts will enable you to develop more effective marketing campaigns and results. Forget the fads, dump the buzz words. Come away with an advanced level of proven marketing knowledge you will start using on Monday morning, and every week thereafter.
For full details, see; https://yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org