By providing its paralegal staff with further professional development opportunities, a firm will likely continue to increase its profitability, and retain their paralegal staff as they are able to accept more challenging responsibilities on each file. Lawyers in turn, can focus on the more crucial components of each case. Thus, a more comprehensive set of studies have been developed to help paralegals achieve a higher level of competency by focusing on substantive topics in law and procedural matters.
The Paralegal Certificate (Advanced) Program curriculum includes all the Professional Development Courses in the Paralegal Certificate (Civil Litigation) Program.
A candidate should be able to complete this program within five to six years of part time study.