National Paralegal College | Evaluated Learning Experience
Legal Document Preparation (PLG-404)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: create a basic sales or services contract from a template, adjusted to the facts and goals of a client; draft and review real property contracts, spotting key provisions and being able to analyze the provisions vis a vis the goals of a client; prepare many different types of real property deeds with a variety of provisions; compose Articles of Incorporation for a for-profit or not-for profit corporation and be able to file such document with the appropriate state agency; review corporate by-laws and analyze their key provisions; draft a general or limited partnership agreement or LLC operating agreement from a template, adjusting the template to the needs of a client; create a valid and binding will, with key features such as personal representative designations, establishment of testamentary trusts, no contest clauses and self-proving affidavits; draft certain types of inter vivos (living) trusts from templates; prepare a Chapter 7, 11 or 13 bankruptcy petition based on information provided by a client; write civil complaints and answers; compose motions involved in a civil trial; prepare a variety of discovery requests, including requests for depositions, interrogatories, requests for documents, etc.; draft prenuptial agreements from templates; and organize an appellate brief, including the preparation of a table of authorities and a general organization of the structure of an appellate brief.